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From Dung Rollers to Fireflies: 10 Fascinating Black Beetles

Beetles are intriguing insects that come in many shapes and sizes. These characteristics are also the easiest way to distinguish the critters, aside from location. With over 400,000 identified species ...
USA Today

Are fireflies lights flickering out? What experts say.

For many Americans, fireflies (or lightning bugs, depending on where you live) are an iconic sign of summer, lighting up warm evenings with their twinkling glow. Fireflies are little beetles in the ...
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Where are the fireflies? Why bioluminescent species are going extinct

For some children, one of their fondest summer memories is catching a firefly in their hands and watching it glow while it sits in their palm. These fireflies (or lightning bugs, glow flies or moon ...
Associated Press

The flickering glow of summer’s fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

DELAWARE SEASHORE STATE PARK, Del. (AP) — On a muggy July evening, Delaware state biologist Jason Davis is doing what kids have done for ages: Trying to catch a firefly. It’s nowhere near as easy as ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Witnessing the spectacle of synchronous fireflies is ‘like magic’

For a few weeks in late spring, thousands of fireflies emerge at the Congaree National Park in South Carolina to blink in synchrony. Scientists... It’s twilight on a warm May evening at the Congaree ...