It was about 10:30 pm, the darkness so inky you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The leafy boughs of late-spring ...

The flashing lights of fireflies serve one primary purpose: mating. Male fireflies fly through the night, flashing a ...

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 ...

Fireflies aren't the only creatures that have ... Some species, the males actually give paired flashes, so they'll fly along and then go bleep, bleep, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.