Rainy, damp weather along the eastern United States in summer 2025 has one upside: Fireflies love it.

No, fireflies/lightning bugs aren't going extinct, but their populations are declining, specifically in highly human-populated areas. There are thousands of species of fireflies throughout the world, ...

Forty percent of the world’s insect species could go extinct over the next few decades. by Stuart Reynolds. Feb. 19, 2019. There are an awful lot of insects.

Claims of fireflies, also called lightning bugs, going extinct or the current generation being the last to see them often circulate on social media, and while their populations are in decline like ...

With deforestation, sprawl, and, above all, climate change putting the planet in jeopardy, scientists believe millions of insect species will die off before we will even encounter them.

When insects go extinct, other species follow. In all, the researchers conclude that as much as 40 percent of all insect species may be endangered over the next several decades.

In 2019, the United Nations conducted an assessment of the global health of insect populations and found 1 million species of all animals were at risk of extinction in the coming decades, with nearly ...

Declaring an insect extinct comes with it a healthy dose of uncertainty. ... We don’t have time machines to go back in time and start a long-term monitoring effort back in the fifties or sixties,” ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to ...

Are fireflies going extinct? What to know about ‘lightning bugs' in Illinois Fireflies, also known as lightning bugs, are facing declining numbers across the globe, according to recent reports.

The rare Lord Howe Island stick insect, also known as "tree lobsters," were believed to be extinct until a few were rediscovered in 2001.