"Catching Fireflies: A New Queer Musical" joins The Players Theatre 2025 Season, a new musical written by Finnigan B. Faye, one of the new Players Artists in Residence, with orchestrations & music ...

Most children and adults remember catching fireflies in a jar on warm summer nights. However, a Virginia Tech entomologist said the number of fireflies is decreasing due to climate and urban ...

Fireflies help gardens by eating pests like slugs and snails, and they also act as pollinators. To attract fireflies, let parts of your yard grow wild with tall grass, leaf litter, and native plants.

It's not easy counting fireflies. Across North America, there are an estimated 170 fireflies species, which are technically beetles in the order Coleoptera, but inventorying them is a challenge. While ...

It’s not a unique experience for Peggy Butler to recall catching fireflies as a child and wonder why they lit up. As an adult, she’s coordinating a lottery of more than 1,500 people from around the ...

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 ...

Spiders are intriguing creepy crawlies, and now, scientists have discovered that some spiders lure prey in using a terrifyingly smart tactic that may give you nightmares. The researchers made this ...

Once orb-weaver spiders ensnare male fireflies in their webs, they turn the doomed insects into bait, using their telltale flashing to lure in more meals. In a stretch of farmland in Hubei Province, ...