Most of the blinking signals that fireflies send out are intended to attract mates. But researchers are finding that, in some cases, these romantic overtures are not all wine and roses. Females of one ...

Suppose also that seeing a neighboring flash yanks a firefly’s pace-setting pendulum a little bit forward or back. Even if the fireflies start off out of sync with each other, or their preferred ...

Thousands of fireflies in the eastern US and Southeast Asia exhibit breathtaking synchronized flashing, a phenomenon now ...