A bright spot of summer ... of the night sky. It's a question the founders of the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival have been getting a lot lately. "There is often the comment made that fireflies ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Fireflies are a trademark of summer. We're all familiar with their glowing tails, but how do they produce that glow and why do they ...

While fireflies are most ... artificial lights at night during summer months, lightning bugs will be more apt to flash their lights and mate. Support Dark Sky International, an organization ...

Daylight hours sometimes feel a bit too long around the summer solstice ... poem by Teiko Inahata effectively says, “The sky must darken for fireflies.” The thrill of joy we humans feel ...

The team had to work fast because the fireflies would only flash for a couple of hours each night. “We were about to enter the world of these miniature creatures and it gave us all a new ...