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Remember those warm early summer Louisiana nights when fireflies lit up the sky like blinking Christmas lights on a tree and the neighborhood kids captured the creatures in Mason jars with air holes ...

Wayan Wardika used to see “clouds of fireflies” as a child growing up among the rice fields of Bali, Indonesia. But 40 years later, he realized that the fireflies in his village had all but ...

Despite their name, fireflies are neither on fire or flies. But chasing them on a summer night might be one of the sweetest of childhood memories. Katherine Rao shared that experience recently with ...

Firefly populations in Louisiana and globally are declining due to habitat loss, pesticides and light pollution. LSU AgCenter scientists are leading a project in Jean Lafitte to restore firefly ...