Last summer, a neighbor asked why we don’t see lightning bugs anymore. This summer, we’ve seen several posts on social media asking about the lightning bugs. Each of these concerns were about the lack ...

It was another warm, humid evening recently, and a Bethlehem backyard was filled with eye-catching streaks of yellow-green. Lightning bugs, or fireflies, were silently moving about, using ...

In certain parts of the U.S., summer nights begin with an unbeatable light show. As dusk settles in, tiny yellow-green beads of light pulse in the darkness: lightning bugs just starting out for the ...

The sun set just a half hour ago as you casually sit in your backyard enjoying the summer skies and then look about at the flashes of light that pop above your lawn. Fireflies, aka lightning bugs, ...

There are over 2,000 species of fireflies in the world, of which less than half dozen are commonly seen in our area. These winged beetles of the order Coleoptera and family Lampyridae are known to ...

Fireflies, also known as lightning bugs, are beetles that thrive in warm, humid weather and communicate through bioluminescence. Fireflies are predatory insects that primarily feed on snails, slugs ...