Some of my favorite summer memories as a kid involve dancing around in my backyard and catching fireflies. From a time when I was enthralled with books about fairies and wizards, seeing fireflies at ...

Fresh off its Off-Broadway run at The Players Theatre earlier this year, Catching Fireflies, a new queer musical, will make its Philadelphia debut at the 2025 Fringe Festival from September 19–24. Set ...

Learn how fireflies synchronize their flashes — and how that natural coordination could inspire future small‑scale robotics.

Fireflies on display above a creek in Forest County, Pennsylvania. Sarah Lower, an assistant professor of biology at Bucknell University, and student Susan Deering were catching fireflies on a recent ...

Like many Iowans, State Entomologist Robin Pruisner remembers warm July nights of catching fireflies in glass jars to see their bioluminescent glow. “As a farm kid in Iowa, I always had a jar — or ...