The Bethany Beach firefly is the first lightning bug species to be considered for protections under the Endangered Species ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined the Bethany Beach firefly is likely to become endangered. Here's all to ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service will consider granting federal protections to the Bethany Beach firefly, which is rapidly ...

The proposal, announced Monday, gives the bioluminescent insect the unenviable status of being the first firefly ever proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Around the country ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service nominated its first firefly for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed that a rare firefly found near sand dunes on Maryland, Delaware and Virginia beaches be named a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The ...

WASHINGTON— In response to a petition and legal agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the Bethany Beach firefly as a ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday denied Endangered Species Act protections for the Las ... But the Bethany Beach firefly, which inhabits parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, requires ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, environmentalism and concerns over the destruction of irreplaceable wildlife habitats became increasingly prevalent, and in 1973 the Endangered Species Act was signed into ...