Fireflies that flash synchronously were known from the Southeast U.S., but are now known from Pennsylvania's Allegheny Forest ...

Every summer across the southeastern United States, thousands of fireflies put on a performance that looks almost choreographed, blinking their lights in near-perfect unison as if following some ...

In the middle of the old-growth forests of Congaree National Park in South Carolina, fireflies put on an otherworldly display every May. Thousands of male insects belonging to the species Photuris ...

Discovering why a rare firefly is thriving at an Indiana nature preserve could benefit other threatened species.

Earlier this month, I visited the Smoky Mountain National Park in hopes of capturing the annual firefly “light show” on camera — but it took some seriously creative thinking to make it happen. Above: ...

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, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The flashes of fireflies on a warm summer ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. – A new study by biologists at Tufts University has translated what male fireflies are saying to females when they flash their lights - and it looks like the males are ...

Fireflies may look like simple summer-night light shows, but each has its own flash pattern used to find mates in tall grass ...

Fireflies are technically beetles. Growing up, Clyde Sorenson loved catching bugs, especially fireflies. But even as a kid, the budding entomologist saw that there was a lot more to these soft-bodied ...