In recent decades, advances in lighting technology have precipitated exponential increases
in night sky brightness worldwide, raising concerns in the scientific community about the …

Human activities have caused a near-ubiquitous and evolutionarily-unprecedented increase
in environmental sound levels and artificial night lighting. These stimuli reorganize …

Insect declines and their drivers have attracted considerable recent attention. Fireflies and
glowworms are iconic insects whose conspicuous bioluminescent courtship displays carry …

Though a number of effects of artificial light pollution on behavior and physiology have been
described, there is little understanding of their consequences for the growth and distribution …

Light pollution impacts both intra-and inter-specific interactions, such as interactions
between mates and predator–prey interactions. In mobile organisms attracted to artificial …

Anthropogenic environmental impacts can disrupt the sensory environment of animals and
affect important processes from mate choice to predator avoidance. Currently, these effects …

Urbanization can radically disrupt natural ecosystems through alteration of the sensory
environment. Habitat disturbances are predicted to favor behaviorally flexible species …

A systematic review of Amydetes Illiger, 1807, based on examination of the type-material.
We fix A. fastigiata Illiger, 1807 as the type-species of the genus; redescribe the genus and …

Research was carried out in the city of Turin (Northern Italy) in order to assess the suitability
of the urban environment for fireflies. The study started in 2007 with an artistic and scientific …

ABSTRACT Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) are charismatic insects that have been fruitful
model systems in biotechnology. However, lack of information about firefly taxonomy and …