An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada

(journaloflostspecies.org)

63 points | by bryanrasmussen 3 days ago

4 comments

  • Modified3019 33 minutes ago
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  • throwAway30303 28 minutes ago
    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.
    • jodacola 23 minutes ago
      I was born in and spent most of my life in the bay area before moving to Kansas City over 10 years ago (long story).

      Seeing fireflies for the first time, in my 30s, was (and still is) magical.

  • jodacola 24 minutes ago
    My knee-jerk reaction to this was, "sigh, more extinct species" - however, "lost species" in this context, as I learned from this paper, means:

    > Herein, we define ‘lost species’ as those with no confirmed observation record within the past decade.

    Confirmed from another source [0], which attempts to formalize the language (not that long ago!).

    [0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/lost-bu...

  • phendrenad2 1 hour ago
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