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 ...

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

and are known by many names—most commonly either lightning bugs or fireflies. Both terms refer to the same family of insects, though we've also heard other creative labels such as firebugs ...

Until recently, tourists flocked here to watch a spectacular evening light show. Thousands of male Pteroptyx malaccae fireflies would gather in the three-story-tall mangrove trees that line the Mae ...