One of summer's most magical sights is an otherwise ordinary field or backyard illuminated by tiny, pulsing points of living light, as fireflies emerge at dusk. And now, a handheld gadget called the ...

Tom Turpin, professor of entomology, says that fireflies offer a science lesson in the backyard, and more. "Fireflies are just a great educational tool," he says. "There's so much you can do with them ...

Fireflies in a jar are a wonderful childhood memory for many of us. Not surprisingly, it's one of the things that Tom Padula missed when he moved from the Midwest to Silicon Valley nearly two decades ...

Perhaps once collected in a jar or observed from the palm of your hand, fireflies are curious creatures that communicate via a yellow glow. They are especially chatty on hot summer nights. Fireflies ...

The intermittent yellow lights flashing in my backyard have reminded me of one of my favorite beneficial insects, the lightningbug (or firefly). Did you know it was also selected as Indiana’s state ...

[Michael Ossman] wrote in to show off his newest project. He calls it the Firefly cap, which we think is something of a play on words. You can see that it serves as the cap of a Mason jar, but it also ...

Remember when you used to catch fireflies in a jar? You do if you grew up in Iowa. When the summer sun went down and the fireflies lit up, you took a mason jar out to the back yard to catch them, one ...