Fireflies are very sensitive to habitat change. In Discover magazine it was pointed out that the Bethany Beach firefly in Delaware is only found in the salt marshes. Those marshes are disappearing due ...

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More than 400 people have signed a petition calling for AEG to bring back the Firefly Music Festival to the woodlands of Dover, Delaware. O ver 400 fans have signed a new petition ...

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Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now researchers are relying on community science to track the beloved beetles.

Picture a warm summer night, the sky dotted with tiny, glowing lights dancing in the dark. For many, fireflies, or lightning bugs, are a magical part of childhood memories. But have you noticed fewer ...

For example, according to Sarah Lower, an assistant professor of biology at Bucknell University, certain species of fireflies, like the Bethany Beach firefly in Delaware, are only found in the salt ...

UD experiment nearing NASA touchdown with Firefly Aerospace lunar lander A rocket now in lunar orbit is holding some very precious cargo, with University of Delaware ties, that will help scientists ...

The Bethany Beach firefly could be added to the Endangered Species Act list, the Washington Post reported. If the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal goes through to classify it as ...

The firefly, found in coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, is one of around 170 firefly species in the U.S. The species is already considered critically endangered by the International Union ...