Conservation attention is sparse for fireflies, which makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly how rapidly they are declining, ...

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

Robins stick around all winter these days, so there is no “first robin of spring,” but there is still the "first firefly of ...

Thanks to the lightning bugs from back home, I am starting to feel a little of the carefree glee of summer evenings.

Children who joined the club would receive a small net and a jar. They’d store their fireflies in the refrigerator and then take them to the company for reimbursement.

Almost as soon as I got them into the jar, I looked forward to releasing them, which I did quickly. This week, they returned the favor by sending me light in the form of kind strangers.

We escaped the heat and humidity of the Triangle for a few days in the mountains. The fallen trees across the creek are ...