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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The flashes of fireflies on a warm summer ...

Fireflies may look like simple summer-night light shows, but each has its own flash pattern used to find mates in tall grass ...

A firefly in Utah. Entomologists at BYU and the University of Utah are researching firefly patterns in the state. (Seth Bybee) Seth Bybee stands on the edge of a lake swarming with hippos and ...

Fireflies are technically beetles. Growing up, Clyde Sorenson loved catching bugs, especially fireflies. But even as a kid, the budding entomologist saw that there was a lot more to these soft-bodied ...

Anyone interested in getting a little closer to nature may be interested in a new gadget which has been designed by Joey Stein based in New York called the Firefly Communicator. The Firefly ...