We all know fireflies and the flashes of brilliance they bring to summer evenings in the backyard. But few of us know fireflies like Sarah Lower, a professor of biology at Bucknell University and a ...

The sun set just a half hour ago as you casually sit in your backyard enjoying the summer skies and then look about at the flashes of light that pop above your lawn. Fireflies, aka lightning bugs, ...

A synchronous firefly event in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photinus carolinus fireflies annually flash in sync during late May or early June. The insects are still in trouble, but ...

Years ago, when Aaron Haines moved back to Lancaster County from Wisconsin, his family stayed for a time at his grandmother’s home, next to a Mennonite farm. He’ll never forget one night in particular ...