In a state where lightning bugs are a rare sight, these recent appearances are delightful and intriguing. Here's what to know ...

Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating ...

Narrator: There are over 2,000 individual firefly species, all within the taxonomic family of Lampyridae, which is pretty easy to remember. And these lightning bugs with their flickering light ...

But if the web belongs to an orb-weaver and the bug is a male firefly, it seems the trapped firefly — once bitten — ends up imitating a female’s flash pattern and luring other males to their ...

Six predators of this firefly were recorded: wolf spiders (n = 2) (Lycosidae), an orb weaver spider (Argiopidae), a harvestman (Phalangida), a giant water bug (Belostomatidae) and a tree frog (Hyla sp ...

The latest Minecraft snapshot 25w05a introduces a host of features, ranging from new cow variants to the firefly bush and ...

When an editor called to ask if I could photograph a story about fireflies in Mexico, I didn’t check my schedule before I said yes. I’d seen these insects light up the forests in Tlaxcala once ...

Photo: A hibiscus harlequin bug is pictured on set during an outback shoot for the “Tiny Heroes Down Under” episode ...

Like pigs, cows now have temperate, warm, and cold variants in Minecraft. Along with the new cow variants, Mojang has also ...