GATLINBURG, TN – They came out one by one and then all at once, swarming the underbrush and pooling in the hollows, blinking crazily like fiber optic filaments in a planetarium or outer space-themed ...

FOREST COUNTY, Pa. — It all started as these stories sometimes do—by accident. “We didn't know that they were on the property,” said Peggy Butler who, along with her husband Ken, lives on a rural ...

Didn’t win the firefly lottery? Don’t worry, the majestic synchronous fireflies light show isn’t limited to just the lucky few. The synchronous fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park put ...

Each year in late spring, the forest fills with fireflies that flash in unison at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The synchronous show draws so many spectators to eastern Tennessee that the park ...

We rushed home to see them. My wife and I had spent a week in the Pacific Northwest celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary (it was 10 years ago this June that the Supreme Court made marriage ...

Southwest synchronous fireflies in particular need a perennial water source and damp leaf litter that can sustain the bugs during the two years they spend underground as larvae before emerging for a ...