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Heatless lightning

July 06, 2019 - Given all the despair we've had over the population declines of fireflies over the past few years, 2019 is actually turn...
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Night lights

June 17, 2019 - For many, many months—indeed, for most of the winter and the spring—the "fireflies" carried no illumination whatsoever....
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Illuminati underfoot

September 28, 2018 - In the blogosphere of the unhinged, the world is supposed to be controlled by a dark force known as the Illuminati. Peri...
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Lawn glow

September 11, 2018 - One of my favorite nighttime activities is to hike the eastern edge of what passes for a lawn—a greensward maintained wi...
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Lampless

February 20, 2018 - The temperature is now pushing into the 50s, and I had an idea: maybe, just maybe, a species of exceedingly early firefl...
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Night moves

September 11, 2017 - Where was a grandchild when I needed one? Tonight, as has been my pattern for the past week or so, I slowly walked a cir...
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The Light Show debuts

June 24, 2017 - In my somewhat misspent youth, I once went to Alaska in the hope and expectation that I would be an emergency forest fir...
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Light show

June 23, 2016 - Whenever my granddaughter Stasia is staying with us in early summer, one activity is guaranteed to be on the agenda: a n...
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Shine little glowworm

September 01, 2015 - There are many bioluminescent invertebrates around the world that are known as "glowworms," but around home, the term re...
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The last flasher

July 30, 2015 - As has been too often the case in recent years, there have been very few fireflies lighting up the dusk and the night. T...
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Natural fireworks

July 04, 2015 - With my wife still barely able to walk, I don't think we're going to be venturing out tonight for fireworks, something I...
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