Every year at this time, just about when the sky is lit by Independence Day celebrations, our night skies are lit by, for me, an equally compelling light show– the flashing of fireflies. And this year ...

A small portion of wetlands in northern Monroe County is attracting not only a special species of firefly but also the biologists who study them. Flashes of yellow-green light that lasts for only 5 to ...

We inhabit a planet that overflows with an abundance of life: penguins and pandas, owls and orchids, zebras and zooplankton. But few things are as wonderful, magical and totally unknown as the firefly ...

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Christopher Heckscher found the firefly in a boggy peat forest at the Nanticoke Wildlife Area New species are a rarity%2C and when they are discovered%2C it is often in remote and unexplored places in ...

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, ...

The June air was thick with summer heat. Mosquitoes rose in clouds around us, testing our resolve while we gathered our cameras and sensors. We walked into the wetland, down the unmarked path until ...