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LANSING, Mich. — Move over monarch butterfly; a large and fast-moving dragonfly is also vying for designation as Michigan’s official state insect. A bill introduced this week in Lansing would ...

Among its fascinating attributes, the Common Green Darner has compound eyes containing more than 30,000 simple eyes. There have been swarms of dragonflies along the Lake Michigan shoreline in recent ...

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A common green darner appeared like magic along the side of a street in my neighborhood. The dragonfly gets its name from its green thorax, the part of the insect’s body that's attached to the wings.

Emerald green with slashes of blue, the green darner dragonfly is among the biggest and fastest of the dragonfly species in North America. You’ve probably seen them darting around bodies of water in ...

Common green darner dragonfly. Photo By Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty Images. Once a week, I arrive home to find the New Yorker magazine on the floor, partly shredded by my dog, who devotes ...

The bird migration that gave us plenty of water birds and raptors earlier now shows early songbirds. Soon their diversity will add much sight and sound to the forests. Frogs do their singing as well ...

Blather's Blabber: The heads and thoraxes of darner dragonflies are colored a lovely yellow green. The males have a light-blue spot on their bellies, which is not a trait the females share. Darner ...

One of nature’s unheralded migrations is that of the green darner. If you watch carefully along a shoreline where dragonflies congregate in late summer, you may notice that the seemingly random ...