Dragonflies seasoned globe trotters it would appear

Their wings are not much longer than the length of a cigarette‚ but on them this insect makes intercontinental journeys of tens of thousands of kilometres. New research has finally proven that a dragonfly called Pantala flavescens migrates across the globe following the summer.Biologists at Rutgers University-Newark‚ studied the insect's genes and found that populations of this dragonfly in places like Texas‚ eastern Canada‚ Japan‚ Korea‚ India and South America were so similar‚ they had been i...