If summer nights seem a little brighter in Michigan this year, you’re not imagining it. Favorable weather conditions in recent years have led to an explosion of firefly activity. Researchers say ...

In Taiwan’s forests, researchers discovered a clever hunting trick by the sheet web spider Psechrus clavis. Instead of immediately devouring captured fireflies, the spiders allow them to glow in the ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Warm, early summer evenings in the Tri-State are often speckled with the flashing of fireflies. However, due to recent challenges that fireflies and their habitats have faced, ...

Synchronous fireflies in the woods at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Radim Schreiber for Great Smoky Mountains National Park A ticket to the annual Great Smoky Mountain synchronous ...

Beatriz Swanson can remember the first time she saw the blinking glow. She was 10 years old, growing up in Mexico, when two fireflies appeared in front of her, floating away before she could carefully ...

Favorable weather conditions, particularly moisture, have led to a thriving firefly population in Pennsylvania this year. The 13th annual PA Firefly Festival, held June 26-28, highlighted the ...