CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Warm, early summer evenings in the Tri-State are often speckled with the flashing of fireflies. However, due to recent challenges that fireflies and their habitats have faced, experts say they are in decline.
Adult fireflies are the ones we see on summer evenings, flashing their lights to attract mates.
Dr. Gene Kritsky, an entomologist with Mount Saint Joseph University, says that it’s normal to not see adult fireflies in the late summer…