Our friend Margaret Fisher wrote a great article for our recent newsletter providing tips on how to attract fireflies to your yard
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July 28, 2023
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** What is Summer without Fireflies?
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** Photo: Firefly, Margaret Fisher
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Our friend Margaret Fisher wrote a great article for our recent newsletter ([link removed]) providing tips on how to attract fireflies to your yard. She suggests planting natives, leaving the leaves and reducing lighting at night. If fireflies can’t see potential mates blinking, they won’t be able to get together.
Light pollution has negative impacts on many other beings as well. Moths exhaust themselves circling around lights. Migrating birds have trouble navigating. We can help by using warm-spectrum LED lights bulbs 3,000 K or less (which don’t attract moths) and by installing motion-detectors, assuming any outdoor lighting is needed at all. Lighting up our properties at night is as rude to our non-human neighbors as playing loud music outdoors is to our human ones, only with more lethal consequences. Continue reading here ([link removed]) .
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