Skye Young and Megan Knight weren’t trying to find the first documented blue ghost fireflies in Mecklenburg County. They were just excited about fireflies.
The two environmental educators were participating in a community science project on June 9 that tracks threatened and little-known firefly species in North America. Knight said their discovery, while participating in the Firefly Atlas project, was a happy accident.
“We weren’t specialized scientists or anything,” Knight said of finding the blue ghost species in Mecklenburg. “We were just excited about fireflies, and went out and looked and found these guys.”…