Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dot-dash fireflies (Photuris pensylvanica) are seen on Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C., in a composite photograph made from ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) illuminate the forests of Watoga State Park, West Virginia, which were discovered in 2019 after efforts to achieve International Dark Sky status. Although ...