Fun fact: The hexagon is the most common shape in nature. The hexagons in this image are in the eye of a dragonfly. Each hexagonal rod, called an ommatidium, contains major structures that have ...

bold eyes carries an auspicious symbolism in many countries. Across Far Eastern civilizations like Japan, there is a particularly positive dragonfly meaning—and that's true for many Indigenous ...

Take this dragonfly, for example. Its eyes are actually made up of thousands of tiny different lenses. We call this kind of eye a compound eye, and because all the little lenses point in different ...

LIFE CYCLE: Larvae live for up to five years, and adults live for at most seven weeks more. It is a short adulthood of feeding, sexual interaction, and egg deposition. When it emerges as an adult, a ...

The Hine's emerald dragonfly, found in scattered locations throughout the Great Lakes region and Missouri, isn't anywhere near that size, but it's every bit as remarkable. Renowned for its aerobatic ...