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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...