‘Fearless and quietly astonishing’: the dragonfly that migrates further than any other insect

Wandering gliders are descended from some of the earliest known insects – and breed as one global population All hail the wandering glider, a citizen of the globe, an insect for all of us. Whenever we see a dragonfly zipping through the airspace and devouring tiny insects with aplomb, we can appreciate they are so timelessly effective that they have barely needed to tweak their way of life in 200m years. Odonates are directly descended from some of the earliest winged insects, known as griffi...

By Patrick Barkham