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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 bragging. MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass ...

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: ...