Chasing lightning bugs on a summer night is a rite of passage for many youngsters. You know how it goes, pursuing the flickering lights across the dusk sky until you clap your hands in a sphere around ...
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 ...
Marc Branham will present "Bioluminescence and Courtship in Fireflies" at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Center for Marine Studies at the Whitney Laboratory, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd. Fireflies are the most ...