As a younger man, Joe Cicero saw “thousands and thousands of them.” Swarms of fireflies put on a soundless fireworks show for him every summer in southern Arizona.
The sight of the fireflies flashing in unison was so mysterious and mesmerizing that the entomologist made the study of the flickering insects his life’s work.
Four decades later, Cicero, now retired, still goes back to those oak woodlands. Today, though, they’re mostly dark. The fireflies have been decimated, Cicero lamented. “Down to just a trivial few relative to the big population they had back then.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/?itid=sr_1
The sight of the fireflies flashing in unison was so mysterious and mesmerizing that the entomologist made the study of the flickering insects his life’s work.
Four decades later, Cicero, now retired, still goes back to those oak woodlands. Today, though, they’re mostly dark. The fireflies have been decimated, Cicero lamented. “Down to just a trivial few relative to the big population they had back then.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/?itid=sr_1