Malaney Dodson had never seen a firefly in the wild before.
That is until the born-and-raised Coloradan headed to a Fort Collins wetland in 2020 as part of her work on a special project underway at Westminster’s Butterfly Pavilion.
“As soon as the sun goes down at dusk, and the light is just fading, they start flashing, and it is so spectacular,” Dodson, an animal wellbeing coordinator and the head of firefly husbandry research, said. “And as lights just get darker and darker, you just see more and more lights flashing and flashing, and it’s like little fireworks. They’re like magical fairies.”…