Organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other partners, Lightning Safety Awareness Week is held the last full week of June each year. Lightning is one of the ...

Anecdotally, many of those people also report seeing fewer fireflies—or lightning bugs, as they’re called in some places—every summer. Experts say there’s scientific merit to that ...

While some firefly populations are dwindling, you can still spot lightening bugs in the Iowa skies during the right times of ...

Lightning bugs are generally no more than one inch long and produce flashes of light on the underside of the abdomen. This ...