firefly

  • A nighttime photo which captured the flash pattern of a loopy firefly

    The firefly is probably the first insect I learned to identify. On long-ago summer nights, my cousins and I would chase and capture lightning bugs, as we called them, in cupped hands and watch them glow. We didn’t care that fireflies are ecologically beneficial – the larvae eat garden and lawn pests like slugs and…

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