Every year at this time, just about when the sky is lit by Independence Day celebrations, our night skies are lit by, for me, an equally compelling light show– the flashing of fireflies. And this year ...

Thousands of fireflies in the eastern US and Southeast Asia exhibit breathtaking synchronized flashing, a phenomenon now ...

A small portion of wetlands in northern Monroe County is attracting not only a special species of firefly but also the biologists who study them. Flashes of yellow-green light that lasts for only 5 to ...

We inhabit a planet that overflows with an abundance of life: penguins and pandas, owls and orchids, zebras and zooplankton. But few things are as wonderful, magical and totally unknown as the firefly ...

In Japanese folk traditions, they symbolize departing souls or silent, ardent love. Some Indigenous cultures in the Peruvian Andes view them as the eyes of ghosts. And across various Western cultures, ...