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China's Endangered Fireflies

Source
Scientific American

Publication Date
2017-09-11

We left Wuhan, China, late one afternoon, crossing the Yangtze River and driving south for hours. As darkness fell, we joined the crowd that spilled out from five massive tour buses. Over 400 city dwellers—young couples, grandparents, families with kids—had traveled for hours into the countryside to watch the sparkling courtship of bioluminescent beetles. Our host, Xinhua Fu, an entomologist at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan and an expert on Chinese fireflies, quickly ushered the eager group onto a dirt track that snaked between rice fields.

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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/chinas-endangered-fireflies/