Sometimes fireflies shouldn’t follow the light. A single flash from a female usually helps male Abscondita terminalis fireflies find her among tall grasses at dusk. Males are showier, giving off ...

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In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly ...

An amber deposit in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon has revealed an exceptional time capsule, faithfully preserving at a ...

As Halloween approaches, you might hear people claim that those fake spider webs could hurt the birds in your yard. Is it ...