In a state where lightning bugs are a rare sight, these recent appearances are delightful and intriguing. Here's what to know ...

Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating ...

and are known by many names—most commonly either lightning bugs or fireflies. Both terms refer to the same family of insects, though we've also heard other creative labels such as firebugs ...

Six predators of this firefly were recorded: wolf spiders (n = 2) (Lycosidae), an orb weaver spider (Argiopidae), a harvestman (Phalangida), a giant water bug (Belostomatidae) and a tree frog (Hyla sp ...

Narrator: There are over 2,000 individual firefly species, all within the taxonomic family of Lampyridae, which is pretty easy to remember. And these lightning bugs with their flickering light ...

But if the web belongs to an orb-weaver and the bug is a male firefly, it seems the trapped firefly — once bitten — ends up imitating a female’s flash pattern and luring other males to their ...

When an editor called to ask if I could photograph a story about fireflies in Mexico, I didn’t check my schedule before I said yes. I’d seen these insects light up the forests in Tlaxcala once ...

Like pigs, cows now have temperate, warm, and cold variants in Minecraft. Along with the new cow variants, Mojang has also ...

In one iconic sequence, the team used black lighting to attract nocturnal insects like fireflies and stag beetles. “I was out black-lighting from dusk until 3 a.m. every night,” Dr.

The latest Minecraft snapshot 25w05a introduces a host of features, ranging from new cow variants to the firefly bush and ...