Fireflies used to light up the summer, but now habitat loss, pesticides and light pollution threaten lightning bugs with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As far as anecdotal observations go, fireflies are having a moment in the Rochester area. The bioluminescent beetles are ...

Rainy, damp weather along the eastern United States in summer 2025 has one upside: Fireflies love it. "Fireflies and their prey (snails, slugs, worms) need moisture, so years with high rainfall, ...

Louisiana may have its own synchronous firefly — the kind people enter a Tennessee lottery to see. Nobody's confirmed it yet.

BETHANY BEACH, Del. — Peering through the darkness under the faint light of a peach-colored moon, wildlife biologist Jason Davis spots a telltale green flash in the bushes. Quick as a flash himself, ...

Fireflies, synonymous with summer evenings, hold a special place in many of our childhood memories. However, without action, today’s youth may never experience their charm as these beloved insects ...

The City Beat is a free Monday newsletter bringing Concord’s biggest local stories and city updates straight to your inbox. Sign up A swath of Granite Staters saw their backyards lit up this summer.

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 ...

It turns out the gloomy spring was good for something. The metro area’s once-dimming firefly population has made a dazzling comeback this summer thanks to the abnormal amount of rain dumped on the ...

There are 175 species of firefly found in the United States, with 18 species of concern with heightened extinction risk. Of those, 40 species are found in New York, including the vulnerable dot-dash ...