Are summer evenings not quite what they used to be, with a cicada soundtrack and a view full of lightning bugs?
It’s a question Tufts University biologist Sara Lewis said she gets a lot.
“It’s really, really one of the things that, as firefly biologists, we hear most often, from people we’re sitting next to in airplanes, or whatever,” she said, “There’s a lot of rumors flying around; a lot of people are noticing fireflies are disappearing. They’re not seeing fireflies where they used to see them.”
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