2025-07-02
1 小时 7 分钟Oh hey,
it's that key under the mat that somehow nobody finds and uses to steal all of your stuff,
Allie Ward.
And this episode, it first aired in 2021,
but it's summer and there has been a lot of discourse on Fireflies lately.
And this week, July 5th and 6th, Mark's World Firefly Day.
So I reached out to this guest because I wanted to re-air this with some updates.
And she said,
I feel like we've accomplished a ton of firefly conservation in the past four years.
And so we've cited some of the new studies and research and ways to volunteer with this creature
because let's roll the episode.
We have fireflies for you, or do we have lightning bugs?
We're going to get into it.
So these glowing friends, they're neither flies nor true bugs,
rather beetles in the family Lampiridae.
But as you will soon learn, this episode's name comes at an expert's behest.
So she is a professor of biology at Tufts University in Boston.
She did a TED Talk on these.
beloved Little Critters.
She's the author of the information-packed and entertaining book,