{"id":14030,"date":"2023-06-28T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=14030"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T19:21:19","slug":"closed-for-june-iv-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/closed-for-june-iv-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed for June IV &#8212; Fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><small>Note: Most links leave to external sites.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BugLady is getting ready for the annual firefly show (for BugFan Tom in the Deep South, the show\u2019s almost over). She has been seeing day-flying fireflies in the air in the wetlands she visits \u2013 for more about <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/lightning-beetle-again\/\">day-flying fireflies and about firefly natural history<\/a> (after 5 years, not all of the links work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-ellychnia19-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-ellychnia19-1-1-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Firefly on a leaf.\" class=\"wp-image-14035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-ellychnia19-1-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-ellychnia19-1-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-ellychnia19-1-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most important question first &#8211; are they fireflies or lightning bugs? This is, of course, a question of great scholarly debate, and it was one of the questions on the wonderful, interactive Harvard American dialect survey of a decade ago. Turns out that the \u201cfirefly\u201d of the West, Western Upper Great Lakes, and New England is the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochesterfirst.com\/weather\/weather-blog\/lets-settle-this-are-they-fireflies-or-lightning-bugs\/\">lightning bug<\/a>\u201d of the South and much of the Midwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-larva17-3-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beetle larva.\" class=\"wp-image-14037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-larva17-3-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-larva17-3-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-larva17-3-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-larva17-3-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Purists, of course, know that these are neither bugs nor flies, and that the term \u201clightning beetle\u201d is more appropriate. They\u2019re in the family Lampyridae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are two articles about lightning beetles: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/illuminating-science-behind-fireflies-180982112\/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;spMailingID=48316292&amp;spUserID=ODg4Mzc3MzY0MTUyS0&amp;spJobID=2461641417&amp;spReportId=MjQ2MTY0MTQxNwS2\">Illuminating science behind fireflies<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/tens-of-thousands-of-synchronous-fireflies-will-soon-flash-in-unison-180982045\/\">Tens of thousands of synchronous fireflies will soon flash in unison<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-lucidota17-5rz-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-lucidota17-5rz-2-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning beetle on a leaf.\" class=\"wp-image-14040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-lucidota17-5rz-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-lucidota17-5rz-2-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-lucidota17-5rz-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-pyractomena16-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-pyractomena16-8-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning beetle on a leaf.\" class=\"wp-image-14041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-pyractomena16-8-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-pyractomena16-8-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-btle-pyractomena16-8.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Identifying fireflies isn\u2019t quite as much fun as watching them. Not everything with a colorful, shield-shaped thorax is a lightning beetle &#8211; there are some species in the closely-related Soldier beetle family (Cantharidae) that do a pretty impressive job of mimicking fireflies [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/478194\/bgpage\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/285149\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1068384\/bgpage\">3<\/a><\/strong>] and every time the BugLady looks through her firefly pictures, she finds a ringer. She recommends Fireflies, Glow-worms and Lightning Bugs by Lynn Frierson Faust. The BugLady tried to ID these to genus \u2013 fingers crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-pyropyga09-12-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-pyropyga09-12-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Firefly on a leaf.\" class=\"wp-image-14043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-pyropyga09-12-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-pyropyga09-12-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-pyropyga09-12-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/firefly-pyropyga09-12-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-photuris20-2rz-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-photuris20-2rz-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning beetle on a leaf.\" class=\"wp-image-14045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-photuris20-2rz-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-photuris20-2rz-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2023\/06\/lightning-beetle-photuris20-2rz-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Go outside. Look for fireflies (and if you catch them, release them in a timely fashion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Most links leave to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady is getting ready for the annual firefly show (for BugFan Tom in the Deep South, the show\u2019s almost over). 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