The Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House will be aflutter with twinkling lights during the Missouri Botanical Garden’s annual Firefly Festival. After your kids complete a few glow-in-the-dark firefly ...

dusk signal that summer has begun. For some people, the insects’ showy displays of courtship trigger nostalgia for childhood evenings spent catching lightning bugs in glass jars; for others, they ...

A team of researchers has managed to boost the amount of light an LED emits by 60 percent simply by shaping its outer surface to resemble the outside of a firefly’s lantern. Researchers from the Korea ...

The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, ...

The firefly is probably the Earth’s most famous bioluminescent species, with over 2,000 individual species. And the secret to its light comes from two essential components: luciferin and luciferase.

It's difficult to identify a single evolutionary novelty in the animal kingdom that has fascinated and intrigued mankind more than the lantern of the firefly. Yet to this day, nothing has been known ...

CLERMONT — On a recent warm Friday night, a group of people picked their way through the nearly pitch dark woods at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum. They were there to see fireflies, also known as ...

"The most important aspect of this work is that it shows how much we can learn by carefully observing nature," says Annick Bay, a Ph.D. student at the University of Namur in Belgium who studies ...