TRANSFORM Your Garden To A FIREFLY Habitat! 

At-Risk and Endangered Firefly Species: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0259379 www.xerces.org/endangered-species/fireflies/species Firefly Specialist Group: www.iucn.org/our-union/commissions/group/iucn-ssc-firefly-specialist-group Support fireflies in your own backyard! www.xerces.org/endangered-species/fireflies www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/fireflies-tips-to-protect-from-threats

Dragonflies friend! They’re so fun to watch eat mosquitoes

I just learned about a native firefly in my area that I had never even heard of...! It's weird, in the West we almost don't realize they exist because I guess they're more likely to only be bioluminescent as larvae, and as adults they are more active in the day and to use pheromones vs. light signaling here. But they do exist and apparently they eat a lot of slugs so YES more fireflies please.

“Extra Squatchy tonight….” Funny stuff. Educational too.

Thank you for this video. I remember fields of fireflies when I was a kid, and I just don't see them much anymore. I recently bought a home and I'm going to do my part in helping them (and I watched your other video about prairie plants--gonna do that too!). Keep up the channel, it's great.

Last year i worked at a conservation job for the first time with people in their early and mid twenties. None of them saw fireflies near their homes ever and a couple of them had never seen a firefly in their life

Happy to have found your channel! Subscribed!!!!

😍 great video! Let's do what we can to enjoy the magic of fireflies for a long time to come!

We love fireflies and they come out in the evening, around 7:30 PM in the Austin neighborhood all the way till 4 AM-5 AM. That’s the best thing about this neighborhood. Thank you for this video, highlighting the cute fireflies 🥰

I've never seen fireflies in my yard :( Plenty of lightningbugs though! :D

Many thanks for the great information, images and humor!

I have neighbors on either side who have more lights than a football field. One neighbor sprays for mosquitoes. By some miracle i still have lightning bugs.

So we’ll done, why only 405 subs? Excellent work.

I just found your channel and wow. This is awesome stuff. You editing and narration are 10/10. Is all the footage your own as well? 👏👏

Last year I entered the Great Smoky Mountains Firefly Viewing lottery to see the synchronous fireflies and got tickets but was sadly unable to go. I will try again this year - as is happening elsewhere, the population is declining. Thank you for this video. I was not aware of the link to pine trees. Also, I will make a note to turn off my outdoor decorative solar lights starting in July.

Wonderful video...I learned so much! Thank you.

Great info! We are lucky and have a good amount of fire flies but it has been more before! Trying to plant more native plants and hopefully help all the pollinators 😊 I am also in MD!

This is adorable, thank you ❤ I'm from Rome and some lucky spots nearer the outskirts still have fireflies, even if not as in the past. My dad is from a village nearby and I remember as small children (mid 80s) we loved to hunt them, as it was tradition that, if left underneath a glass, they'd leave some coins (I feel bad now, those poor things 🥲). I live in UK now, but me and my english husband to be are planning to move back to Italy soon, in a small country house north of Rome. I'll do some research on fireflies in the area, though to be honest I never saw them. Would it be possible or wise to try to introduce them? I hope anyone who reads this could reply ❤

thank you for the suggestion of host plants! im buying 2 pitch pine and 2 white pine from TN nursery!

You think these can be used for lights?

Would Ferns make a good habitat? Mom's house has a bunch of ferns and I've seen quite a few fireflies around there in the summer.

Can you also include what region you are in? Im in southern Louisiana and would loke yo know of things you say are fully applicable to my area