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Firefly populations are declining. These tips can help you turn your yard into an inviting habitat for the bioluminescent stars of summer.

Fireflies and glowworms, like most insects, are struggling. Global efforts to safeguard these magical but little-understood bioluminescent beetles are ongoing

Fireflies and glowworms, like most insects, are struggling. Global efforts to safeguard these magical but little-understood bioluminescent beetles are ongoing

One thing you can do is limit light pollution by closing curtains at night and buying motion-activated porch lights.

Fireflies have performed their elaborate light dance for millions of years, lit only by the moon. Experts say artificial lights are killing their mood.

As many as 1 in 3 lightning bug species in America could be under threat, scientists say.

New Canaan, a wealthy town in Connecticut, is a town of lawns.Lawns, green and rolling. Lawns, trim and bug-free, lined with sculpted shrubs. Lawns, like so many lawns across suburban

Bill and Mary-Ellen McDonald host firefly viewing parties, hoping to inspire their neighbors to stop using pesticides and consider rewilding their lawns.

“Fireflies are like most other wildlife: They need things a little wild,” said Candace Fallon, a conservation biologist and one of the creators of the Firefly Atlas from the Xerces Society, an international invertebrate conservation group.

As a younger man, Joe Cicero saw "thousands and thousands of them." Swarms of fireflies put on a soundless fireworks show for him every summer in southern Arizona.