TRANSFORM Your Garden To A FIREFLY Habitat!

Lightning bugs need our help! Habitat loss has reduced firefly populations, but we can transform our landscapes and gardens into an oasis for fireflies and their larvae!

Join me as I adventure in the dark and share some simple changes we can all make to help provide habitat for fireflies and lightning bugs! And they'll return the favor by eating some of your garden pests!

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"Sweet Acoustic" by Lavoe
"Epic Suspense Cinematic" by ImagineMe

[gardenforbirds]

At-Risk and Endangered Firefly Species:

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Support fireflies in your own backyard!

[Hayley-sllm]

I just learned about a native firefly in my area that I had never even heard of...! It's weird, in the West we almost don't realize they exist because I guess they're more likely to only be bioluminescent as larvae, and as adults they are more active in the day and to use pheromones vs. light signaling here. But they do exist and apparently they eat a lot of slugs so YES more fireflies please.

[PetrasGarden]

Great info! We are lucky and have a good amount of fire flies but it has been more before! Trying to plant more native plants and hopefully help all the pollinators 😊 I am also in MD!

[abcdeisthekey]

Can you also include what region you are in? Im in southern Louisiana and would loke yo know of things you say are fully applicable to my area

[chelseashurmantine]

Dragonflies friend! They’re so fun to watch eat mosquitoes

[Penvarien]

Thank you for this video. I remember fields of fireflies when I was a kid, and I just don't see them much anymore. I recently bought a home and I'm going to do my part in helping them (and I watched your other video about prairie plants--gonna do that too!). Keep up the channel, it's great.

[joeljones]

“Extra Squatchy tonight….” Funny stuff. Educational too.

[kaciecarmichael]

You curled up hiding from reality??!! SUBSCRIBED IMMEDIATELY ❤️❤️

[saucemansaucyboogaloo]

I've never seen fireflies in my yard :(
Plenty of lightningbugs though! :D

[naturewithgabe]

I just found your channel and wow. This is awesome stuff. You editing and narration are 10/10. Is all the footage your own as well? 👏👏

[geesecouchtaming]

You think these can be used for lights?

[abcdeisthekey]

Last year i worked at a conservation job for the first time with people in their early and mid twenties. None of them saw fireflies near their homes ever and a couple of them had never seen a firefly in their life

[SMElder-iyfl]

I have neighbors on either side who have more lights than a football field. One neighbor sprays for mosquitoes. By some miracle i still have lightning bugs.

[OldManse]

So we’ll done, why only 405 subs? Excellent work.

[Uapa]

This is adorable, thank you ❤ I'm from Rome and some lucky spots nearer the outskirts still have fireflies, even if not as in the past.
My dad is from a village nearby and I remember as small children (mid 80s) we loved to hunt them, as it was tradition that, if left underneath a glass, they'd leave some coins (I feel bad now, those poor things 🥲).
I live in UK now, but me and my english husband to be are planning to move back to Italy soon, in a small country house north of Rome.
I'll do some research on fireflies in the area, though to be honest I never saw them.
Would it be possible or wise to try to introduce them?
I hope anyone who reads this could reply ❤

[BarrengerFynar]

Would Ferns make a good habitat? Mom's house has a bunch of ferns and I've seen quite a few fireflies around there in the summer.

[dzzzzzz]

Happy to have found your channel!
Subscribed!!!!

[FireflyMagicLights]

😍 great video! Let's do what we can to enjoy the magic of fireflies for a long time to come!

[mm-qdho]

Last year I entered the Great Smoky Mountains Firefly Viewing lottery to see the synchronous fireflies and got tickets but was sadly unable to go. I will try again this year - as is happening elsewhere, the population is declining. Thank you for this video. I was not aware of the link to pine trees. Also, I will make a note to turn off my outdoor decorative solar lights starting in July.

[marygennetti]

Many thanks for the great information, images and humor!