Well at least we’ll still have lightning bugs, right.
I'm not okay.
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
This is a wild concept to me. I see hundreds if not thousands every night in the summer.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Count you’re blessing 20ish years is all it took for them to disappear at my parents house.
Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Google windshield effect or windscreen effect for real doomerism.
carrylex@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Aww bless. That’s where I live. My yard is still full of em at night, I’ve made sure of it.