Chris Romo took this photo in late summer of what appears to be a nearly emerged familiar bluet damselfly (Enallagma civile).

Thanks to the fourth- graders at Beatty Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada has the beautiful Vivid Dancer Damselfly as its official state insect, not the ugly “mosquito” or “barfly” that state ...

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons made a lot of fourth-graders happy today when he signed into law a bill making the vivid dancer damselfly Nevada’s official state insect. The effort to make the blue and ...

Damselflies. Both the name and the appearance of these insects seem to imply delicacy. Don’t believe it. All their lives, from aquatic nymph to aeronautic adult, they are relentless, efficient ...

Megalagrion pacificum is an endangered damselfly found on Maui. Evolving over 20 million years of isolation, these native damselflies and dragonflies are threatened by habitat loss and introduced ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - In a race against the “extinction clock,” scientists are reintroducing native damselflies into the wild on Oahu’s North Shore. A small platoon of biologists have ...

For over 20 years, a research team has studied the common bluetail damselfly. Females occur in three different color forms -- one with a male-like appearance, something that protects them from mating ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Damselflies are the demure relatives of dragonflies, those brash mosquito eaters of ponds and ...