True Facts: Fireflies Need Your Help!

Name: True Facts: Fireflies Need Your Help!
Uploaded: 2025-03-11T15:00:54.000Z

Donate to Xerces’ firefly conservation initiative: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/xerces/info/fireflyfunding The Xerces Society: https://xerces.org/ Firefly Atlas: https://www.fireflyatlas.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/truefacts Thank you: Get To Know Nature https://www.youtube.com/@UCRY_koaderLMa-I_lRg9Zkg Danae Wolfe https://www.chasingbugs.com/my-story/ Dr. Adrian Smith https://www.youtube.com/@UCWxiO_Br1awgEjy79VItspQ https://www.flickr.com/photos/katunchik/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firefly_larva_feeding_on_snail_by_Raju_Kasambe_DSCN4504_%281%29_03.jpg Candace Fallon: https://www.xerces.org/staff/candace-fallon Orit Peleg: https://www.peleglab.com/ Barber, Herbert Spencer. 1951. "North American fireflies of the genus Photuris." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 117, (1) 1–58. Martin, O., Nguyen, C., Sarfati, R. et al. Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification. Sci Rep 14, 3432 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53671-3 Sarfati R, Hayes JC, Sarfati É, Peleg O. Spatio-temporal reconstruction of emergent flash synchronization in firefly swarms via stereoscopic 360-degree cameras. J R Soc Interface. 2020 Sep;17(170):20200179. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0179. Epub 2020 Sep 23. PMID: 32961095; PMCID: PMC7536049. Sarfati R, Hayes JC, Peleg O. Self-organization in natural swarms of Photinus carolinus synchronous fireflies. Sci Adv. 2021 Jul 7;7(28):eabg9259. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9259. PMID: 34233879; PMCID: PMC8262802. P. Cinzano, F. Falchi, C.D. Elvidge, The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky brightness, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 328, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 689–707, https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04882.x

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