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    Migratory Dragonfly Citizen Science!

    Most people know about monarch butterfly migration, but there are actually other insects in the US that migrate. That includes 16 species of American dragonflies! Some researchers actually attached tiny radio transmitters to some Green Darners and followed their movements. The average distance migrated was 58 km (about 36 miles), but some dragonflies traveled twice that distance. A paper from 1998 described mass autumn…

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