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.

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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 ...

Common green darners, one of the largest dragonflies in the region, range across the entire United States and southern Canada. They fly back and forth along the edges of ponds and fields like military ...

I've been wanting to feature this week's creature for years, but the need for further study always caused delays. And while there is still much to learn about this fascinating species, the common ...