Fireflies Disappearing?

Is there actually evidence leading to the disappearance of fireflies? Over the last few years The Museum of Science has found evidence leading to the decline in the firefly population. But so far no one knows if it's true. Right now to prevent fireflies from disappearing they have started a program that will go on for 10 years which will have volunteer citizen scientists start to actually count the number of fireflies. On the third year of the Firefly Watch they will start to map out sightings and info about the bug to find out if they are actually disappearing and if so, why they are.





They way they count fireflies is pretty simple. Each night members of the Firefly Watch go out into their backyards and count the number of lights that blink across their yards. This will help scientists figure out what needs to be studied about the supposed disappearance of fireflies. One of the theories for them disappearing is pollution from humans. People that actually want to see the data collected so far can go onto their website and it will show maps of where and what the conditions were that fireflies have been spotted at.

I chose this article because I just wondered what it would be like to be outside in the summer and there not be any fireflies around ever again. This article relates to class because we were talking about pollution and how it effects the earth and our surroundings. So if pollution is actually a factor in the disappearance of fireflies that just means that eventually some other type of animal could go extinct because of us and the pollutants we put into our environment.