Well at least we’ll still have lightning bugs, right.
I'm not okay.
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SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is a wild concept to me. I see hundreds if not thousands every night in the summer.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Count you’re blessing 20ish years is all it took for them to disappear at my parents house.
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Alexa, play Owl City - Fireflies
More seriously, I’m pleased to see I’m not the only person who views this as a terrible loss.
normalexit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oddly this year they are really prevalent in my area. In prior years I haven’t seen nearly as many.
I’m intentionally avoiding lawn treatments and insecticides this year. I love my yard, but I’m also thinking about switching to clover.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Google windshield effect or windscreen effect for real doomerism.
carrylex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Recent IUCN Red List assessments for North American fireflies have identified species with heightened extinction risk in the US, with 18 taxa categorized as threatened with extinction
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I’ve seen them once in my life, in Smoky Mountains, about 10 years ago. It was pretty much spiritual experience. The darkness came alive. I cried when I saw their luciferase smeared over windshield and glowing long after the creature was dead. I knew lots of lore about them, saw them in mass culture - never realizing I never saw one myself, even though I take care to notice all living things around, from bacteria and yeast to mycchorizal networks.
I live in Europe.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aww bless. That’s where I live. My yard is still full of em at night, I’ve made sure of it.