In certain parts of the U.S., summer nights begin with an unbeatable light show. As dusk settles in, tiny yellow-green beads of light pulse in the darkness: lightning bugs just starting out for the ...

It’s the last day of June and I’m standing under the overhang on my back deck protected from the last drips of a rainstorm. It’s past nine o’clock but not quite dark yet. But the yard is starting to ...

A firefly in Komono, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. Grab a mason jar and fall back into childhood. Lightning bugs are back in Michigan! Long before string lights, catching a glowing beetle in a jar was ...

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, ...

Photuris pensylvanica — better known as the Pennsylvania firefly or, as most Philadelphians call it, the lightning bug — is out in full force this summer. Reports suggest that central and rural parts ...

DELAWARE SEASHORE STATE PARK (AP) — On a muggy July evening, Delaware state biologist Jason Davis is doing what kids have done for ages: Trying to catch a firefly. It’s nowhere near as easy as the ...

The flickering fields of summer nights are back. Fireflies, it seems, are abundant again. Throughout the region, people are noticing more of the largely nocturnal, flashing insects. Once a staple of ...

As the sun dips below the horizon, casting long shadows across Arizona's arid landscape, something unexpected catches your eye — a flicker of light, then another. Fireflies, the elusive lanterns of ...