Fireflies live on every continent, but they’re plentiful in humid areas, like Florida and parts of Asia. Many fireflies also mature from their larval stages in the summer, coming out mostly at dusk.
Scientists estimated that fireflies evolved aerial bioluminescence, the ability to glow during flight, at least 100 million years ago in a July 2022 study that analyzed the first Mesozoic ...
(In other places, some fireflies live in ponds and rivers.) Thirteen years ago, campers in the Allegheny National Forest saw fireflies flashing in unison. The Firefly International Research ...
When an editor called to ask if I could photograph a story about fireflies in Mexico, I didn’t check my schedule before I said yes. I’d seen these insects light up the forests in Tlaxcala once ...
The Fireflies will offer unmatched precision with their native five-meter resolution, more than 150 spectral bands, and a 40-kilometre wide swath that enables the constellation to access any part of ...