As kid in Virginia in the 60s Summer evenings were magical - Lightening Bug galore. Then mosquito spraying began. The mosquitos remained - Lightening Bugs not so much:(
Nice to see that "swatting with badminton rackets" isn't endangering them enough to make the article. As someone who was raised in a firefly-dense rural area, let me tell you, the thrill of the bioluminescent sparks is the closest I got to cocaine as a kid.
I have too many hobbies and not nearly enough time or space, but I’ve always been interested in raising glowworms at some point.<p>This channel has some fairly unique practical information on raising them (and some other things as well) for those interested: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@PeppersnGlowworms/playlists" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@PeppersnGlowworms/playlists</a>
First we lost the stars in the sky now we lost the stars on Earth
My knee-jerk reaction to this was, "sigh, more extinct species" - however, "lost species" in this context, as I learned from this paper, means:<p>> Herein, we define ‘lost species’ as those with no confirmed observation record within the past decade.<p>Confirmed from another source [0], which attempts to formalize the language (not that long ago!).<p>[0] <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/lost-but-not-forgotten-a-new-nomenclature-to-support-a-call-to-rediscover-and-conserve-lost-species/5A148CDB9F0ECB4B11D04BA0D35864B2" rel="nofollow">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/lost-bu...</a>
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