Owen Martin has a simple remedy for anyone who doesn't believe fireflies live in Colorado. The University of Colorado Boulder Ph.D. student arranges visits to the places where he studies the ...

Fireflies rely on flashing signals to communicate to other fireflies using light-emitting lanterns on their abdomens. In fireflies of the species Abscondita terminalis, males make multi-pulse flashes ...

Once orb-weaver spiders ensnare male fireflies in their webs, they turn the doomed insects into bait, using their telltale flashing to lure in more meals. In a stretch of farmland in Hubei Province, ...

Nearly every model for firefly synchrony ever concocted, for example, assumes that each firefly maintains its own internal metronome. A preprint that Peleg’s group posted in March, however, showed ...

Fireflies light up the night to attract mates, but attraction may not be about being flashy; it could also be about who smells the best. New research published in BMC Genomics looks at the genetics of ...

A biologist holds a Bethany Beach firefly, found on a survey in 2019. The dwindling species is now being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Kayt Jonsson / USFWS Along the ...

The study grew out of Amichay’s project to understand how synchrony arises in nature. Along with some lab mates, Amichay visited Thailand to collect footage of firefly swarms, blinking together in the ...

Visit Indy, Lafayette, and New Harmony to learn about our state insect, the Say’s Firefly. The firefly. The lightning bug. The romance of early summer in Indiana has always been a twinkling glow of ...

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, ...