"And he loved to catch fireflies every night."

Maybe it's sipping lemonade on the patio before work or catching fireflies with your kids after dinner.

He needed thousands of living specimens in the laboratory, so he paid children to catch fireflies for a quarter per hundred.

Then I read with dismay that catching fireflies had become virtually an industry.

I kept reading of other projects also employing schoolchildren to catch fireflies so scientists could probe their mysteries.

If we succeed, we will no longer have to go out on warm summer nights to catch fireflies.

When Kimberly was younger, she and her sister had loved to catch fireflies.

The bride grabbed at the rice like someone trying to catch fireflies on a summer night and yelled, "I can cook with this!"

Here, he said, "30, maybe 40" inner-city children have learned to swim, ride a bicycle and catch fireflies.

So much for sitting on my porch in a sun dress, watching the children catch fireflies.