For many people across the United States, summer doesn’t truly begin until the soft glow of electric yellow and green fireflies can be seen drifting through the night. But you don’t have to travel to ...

Unlike the enchanting yellow-green flashes of light produced on warm summer evenings by Photinus pyralis, the most common firefly species in North America, the orange lights of Photinus scintillans ...

You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up. But you stare in the direction of the flicker of light and there it is again — the first firefly of the evening ...

BALTIMORE — The glow of LED lights might throw off the flirtations of fireflies, new tests suggest. Females of the big dipper species (Photinus pyralis) don’t flash back at twinkling males quite as ...

(WBIR - Knoxville) Those seeking enlightenment on lightning bugs need only look to Lynn Faust of Knoxville. As one of the world's leading experts on the illuminating insects, she's known to many as ...

When the sun falls below the horizon, a skinny beetle named Photinus pyralis wakes up and takes to the air. We know it as the firefly, or lightning bug, an insect that transforms the sultry summer ...

When the sun falls below the horizon, a skinny beetle named Photinus pyralis wakes up and takes to the air. We know it as the firefly, or lightning bug, an insect that transforms the sultry summer ...

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 ...

Big dipper fireflies (Photinus pyralis) at dusk. An exploration of a large swath of local land, largely untouched, is now the focus of a new exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center. A Year on the Edge ...

Fireflies (Photinus pyralis) defuse bat attack with bioluminescence and slow, predictable flight. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 22, 2018, issue of Science Advances, ...

When the sun falls below the horizon, a skinny beetle named Photinus pyralis wakes up and takes to the air. We know it as the firefly, or lightning bug, an insect that transforms the sultry summer ...