Perhaps once collected in a jar or observed from the palm of your hand, fireflies are curious creatures that communicate via a yellow glow. They are especially chatty on hot summer nights. Fireflies ...

A synchronous firefly event in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photinus carolinus fireflies annually flash in sync during late May or early June. The insects are still in trouble, but ...

There is something magical about a firefly that fascinates young and old alike. If you grew up in the South, catching lightning bugs in a Mason jar was a childhood summer rite of passage. With ...

(CN) — Moving to protect the distinctive lightning bugs that call the Delaware coast home, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed earmarking the Bethany Beach firefly as a threatened species ...

Blink and they’re gone Patrice Bouchard has catalogued beetles for two decades as an entomologist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. His work, like much federally driven insect science, follows a ...