"They are really just the back end of a firefly life cycle." During their brief time as adults, fireflies are focused on reproduction. Some are so focused on it that they don't even eat ...

They lay eggs that hatch into plated larvae that usually dwell on the ground, in brushy or weedy spots. Firefly larvae are voracious hunters, eating things like slugs, snails, other beetles ...

While exploring the Belgian countryside, he lifted a stone and found a treasure: the larvae of a common glow-worm, a firefly species widespread in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While running back to ...

“The main job of larvae or juvenile, baby, fireflies is to eat,” Fallon said. “So they spend all their time hunting and looking for things like worms.” As adults, most firefly species don ...

Whenever possible, darkness is the answer. Firefly larvae glow from their home on a termite mound in Emas National Park, Goias, Brazil. These insects typically spend most of their lives developing ...

“While the leaves and detritus may look messy in the yard and in the garden, you’ll need to leave this ‘waste’ in place as it serves as the winter home for thousands of invertebrates, some of which ...

Since 2017, the Butterfly Pavilion’s groundbreaking Firefly Life Cycle Project has done similar work with much smaller creatures: fireflies. On June 11, the fourth firefly captured in the wild ...