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Dancing With Dragonflies, For Science

Two scientists realize that before you can find out how dragonflies migrate, you have to catch them.

By Madeline Bodin
Oct 8, 2019 5:00 AMDec 13, 2019 3:38 PM
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The green darner dragonfly's migration habits were a mystery until conservation biologist Sara Zahendra and team caught enough of the insects to crack the code. | Jerry McFarland

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Sara Zahendra and Kent McFarland helped discover something that entomologists had long suspected: Green darners, a species of dragonfly, are nomads at heart.

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