Earlier this month, Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Kentucky documented some new firefly species. Researchers discovered three fireflies, two of which do not glow in the dark. Those two are called ...

Orit Peleg was recently awarded an NSF Career Grant for her project titled "Principles of Firefly Rhythmic Synchronization". From the NSF award abstract: Biological communication in large animal ...

Fireflies in a forest at night in Tennessee. Haoxiang Yang On an early June evening, physicist Raphael Sarfati breathed hard as he lumbered up a dense forest trail in Great Smoky Mountains National ...

In the middle of the old-growth forests of Congaree National Park in South Carolina, fireflies put on an otherworldly display every May. Thousands of male insects belonging to the species Photuris ...

Mathematicians took a cue from nature by studying how fireflies synchronize their flashes. Researchers used a complex elliptic burster model of brain cell behavior to understand the synchronization.

Researchers documented three new firefly species in a Kentucky forest, including two rare types that do not glow in the dark.

National parks in S.C. and Tennessee host viewing events in late May, early June. On a humid summer evening, the thick temperate deciduous forest is hauntingly dark. As soon as the last twilight of ...

You have the chance to view what is called "a special and unique phenomenon" in South Carolina. Every year, Congaree National Park hosts synchronous fireflies for ...