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In my experience, it's been declining for decades. I moved to Oklahoma in the 90s, expecting to see fireflies. I saw ... one? Two? And that was it. I didn'
by rootusrootus 4y ago
In my experience, it's been declining for decades. I moved to Oklahoma in the 90s, expecting to see fireflies. I saw ... one? Two? And that was it. I didn't see any significant number of fireflies until a later visit to West Virginia. But the way my grandparents used to talk about it, Oklahoma was teeming with fireflies during their youth.
- _moof 4y agoFireflies need humidity (which is why you don't see any in the American West) and Oklahoma sits right on the semi-permanent atmospheric boundary that divides the humid east from the dry west. This central dry line has shifted eastward due to climate change, taking the fireflies with it. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/eint/22/5/ei-d-17-0012.1.xml https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/eint/22/5/ei-d-17...