We all know fireflies and the flashes of brilliance they bring to summer evenings in the backyard. But few of us know fireflies like Sarah Lower, a professor of biology at Bucknell University and a ...
It’s twilight on a warm May evening at the Congaree National Park in Hopkins, South Carolina. A wooden boardwalk weaves through cypress knees, and towering loblolly pines. A viewing platform holds the ...
Synchronous fireflies in the woods at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Radim Schreiber for Great Smoky Mountains National Park A ticket to the annual Great Smoky Mountain synchronous ...
In Taiwan’s forests, researchers discovered a clever hunting trick by the sheet web spider Psechrus clavis. Instead of immediately devouring captured fireflies, the spiders allow them to glow in the ...