Scientists suspect many species are in decline—but there are still unanswered questions and a lot of hope. Here's when and ...

While fireflies are most ... artificial lights at night during summer months, lightning bugs will be more apt to flash their lights and mate. Support Dark Sky International, an organization ...

A bright spot of summer ... of the night sky. It's a question the founders of the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival have been getting a lot lately. "There is often the comment made that fireflies ...

Some Floridians never see a firefly in their home state, but Florida actually has more than 50 species of firefly. Here's how ...

The change in the night sky is subtle from night to night ... their flashing light patterns. At dusk in the summer, large numbers of fireflies gather for just a few weeks every year and can ...

Lightning bugs, also known as fireflies, are harmless insects known ... Additionally, light pollution and artificial lights at night can interfere with lightning bugs' flashing patterns, which ...

It opens with the Spring Treetop Flashers, and if you explore wild places at night starting ... gives way to summer, we’re treated to the J pattern of the Common Eastern Fireflies.

The team had to work fast because the fireflies would only flash for a couple of hours each night. “We were about to enter the world of these miniature creatures and it gave us all a new ...