While each species is vulnerable to certain threats given their geographic location and habitat, the main reasons fireflies are declining include habitat loss and degradation, light pollution ...

The upstream area is suitable as a firefly habitat because limited amounts of agricultural chemicals are used in surrounding rice paddies, according to Yoshinori Yoshida, who serves as a ...

The Bethany Beach firefly has been pushed to the brink of extinction by urbanization, light pollution, habitat fragmentation, pesticides and climate change-induced sea-level rise and storm surges. The ...

This park, despite being one of the few habitats where fireflies are spotted, is also recording a declining firefly ...

The insects are the Bethany Beach firefly, Franklin’s bumblebee, Gulf Coast solitary bee and Mojave poppy bee, a solitary and specialist pollinator that depends on a plant species called the Las Vegas ...