NJ Nature Notes: Summer spotlight on fireflies


Photo Credit: NJ Nature Notes

From NJ Nature Notes: Sometime around the beginning of the summer vacation in about 1952, my father so enjoyed watching my younger brother and me (ages 5 and 6) trying to catch fireflies that he constructed a small wooden box, probably six inches on a side, with window screening on four of the walls and a simple hinged door, in which to house our captured twilight treasures. The intent was that we could collect fireflies and observe them in this little outdoor enclosure. I can’t remember the details, but we must have collected at least a dozen of them and had fun staying up late watching them light up repeatedly. It was amazing to see their yellow-green light and to not feel any heat. We did learn one important lesson from this: don’t forget to release the fireflies before going to bed. Sigh!

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 7/16/2011 10:00 AM
Categories: Invertebrates
Tags: Insects fireflies summer lightning bugs beetle
 

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