How fast can insects fly?

Faster than you can run! Yellow jacket wasps can fly 15 miles (24 km) an hour. That’s fast enough to catch you if you disturb a nest. Dragonflies are probably the fastest, at about 60 miles (96 km) an hour. A no-see-um midge holds the record for wing speed. It flaps its wings nearly 63,000 times a minute!