Watching fireflies is one of the singular pleasures of a warm summer night. Many of us have fond memories of watching them flit about and even catching them in a jar to observe their flashes more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A synchronous firefly event in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photinus carolinus fireflies annually flash in ...

Q How do fireflies glow? — Ryan Hopp, Verona, Wis. A PJ Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab: Fireflies, sometimes called lightning bugs, are actually a type ...

The flash of fireflies is a tiny but powerful sign of summer. These little insects delight young and old. They’re important enough to be Pennsylvania’s state insect, appropriately named photuris ...

As summer heats up and humidity thickens the air, Minnesota’s annual spectacle of fireflies arrives. The flashes of greenish to yellowish light flicker at the edge of meadows and moist woods. Or you ...

For as long as I can remember, I have loved fireflies. I can easily recall, just like many other people, catching them to put them in a jar. Seeing them all fly out at once was nothing short of ...

Fireflies, sometimes called lightning bugs, are actually a type of beetle, so they’re not a true fly. In Wisconsin and the Great Lakes area there are about two dozen or more different species of ...