further

⊕ For a deep and poetic behind-the-scenes peek at our work on the collective behavior of fireflies, I warmly recommend Vanessa Gregory's Bright Flight story in Harper's Magazine, March 2022.

⊕ For a thorough exploration of the biology and ecology of fireflies, a few essentials:

• Lynn Faust's Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs
• Sara Lewis's Silent Sparks
• Ben Pfeiffer's firefly.org

For immersive and inspiring photography:

• Mac Stone's National Geographic story
• Radim Schreiber's fireflyexperience.org

⊕ For the peer-reviewed scientific content (open-access):

• A mathematical creature lurking in swarms of Photuris frontalis (bioRxiv)
• Elusive synchrony in Arizona's Photinus knulli (Interface 2022)
• Waves and social networks in Photinus carolinus (Science Advances 2021)
• Firefly trajectories from 360-degree GoPro cameras (Interface 2020)

For even more on firefly collective behavior:

• The New York Times' perspective by Sabrina Imbler
• NPR's All Things Considered
• Smithsonian Magazine's piece by Courtney Holden