I was on a trip in eastern Tennessee truck camping and got out and saw one of my favorite memories... I was in a dark forest and the fireflies were out... thousands and thousands of them all around.. it was magical to see them up close and in the distance between the trees. It was far better than any C-mas display. It is still imprinted on my mind... 😇
I love watching the passing of knowledge between generations and seeing you support the next generation of entomologists. I live in CT and will turn out our house lights at night knowing this. Is there anything else we can do to support you? Maybe more volunteers to count fireflies? I'd be interested in helping 😊
When I moved to northern TX I saw lots of fireflies in the back yard. I sprayed for mosquitoes one year and immediately saw a decline. I stoped the spraying and they were back the following year. Lesson learned. I'd rather just use repellent on myself than spray the whole area and destroy a ton of awesome fireflies.
I had a year of chemo about 20 years ago. One night really late/early went outside and gazillions were lighting in unison. Had no idea til then they did that here. Magic!
I once saw a bunch of fireflies doing what looked like a big synchronized light show with repetitious pulses and waves of light. It was amazing and beautiful. In Sperryville, Virginia
The night i went out with a researcher specifically looking for intertidal fireflies in a county park near a bay and finding many of them inhabiting all off the mangroveand saltmarsh areas... it was pretty exciting to even see the larva glow a faint green in the wet wrackline riddled coast.
Native of Arkansas Ozarks...Lightning bugs meant the weather was good and warm!🥳 As adult, living at home for awhile after college, I had a late night restaurant shift and was usually exhausted. We lived in a wonderful spot where there were very few outside lights. The one we did have was on the other side of our house and my bedroom was on the darkest side. One night, in a brain fog, I woke up and saw a greenish pulsing light moving down the hallway towards my room. I was terrified😱...until the Firefly flew into the room😂 I was not the love he was looking for😉 It's so tragic that we have to only come to respect these beetles when we begin to lose them.
After I moved to Oregon, I cried when I realized that there are no fireflies here. 😢 When I was a little girl, I would catch them between 2 Dixie Cups and then watch them blink for a while, before I would let them go. I never outgrew my love for them …
Funny you say that because on Halloween night 2023 while visiting Klamath Falls Oregon, my family saw blue/white firefly's in a big oak tree! Keep your eyes open you might see some too! 💙
@@dogeared100 It's astounding how precious such common critters are when we don't have them around anymore! p.s. I'll send you a few Oregon squirrels to you. They're always destroying the bird feeders here …
I have noticed this week they are starting to appear here, as the summer approaches here in Brazil, but my favorite bioluminescent insect is the fire beetle, and they will only appear in the middle of summer, around december. They don't blink and they are really bright, impressing anyone who witness green lights flying around.
Fireflies seem so magical and it's odd to see them in full light just walking around on a person's hand. Like - that's a beetle. It looks like a lovebug! (scourge of the US Southeast) But they're much much nicer than lovebugs. I can't pick out a particular single memory, I've been enchanted with them ever since moving into the state of Mississippi. I grew up in western Texas: very arid, very flat, no trees to speak of and certainly no fireflies! (Some very attractive moths, though.) So coming here to this green wet place...that first summer I thought I'd die from the humidity, I didn't believe I could EVER adjust to be comfortable. And then I saw my first group of fireflies and forgot about being sweaty and sticky and cranky. I stayed out there until my mother yelled at me for it. Fascinating to understand that each species has its own color of light - I wonder if that color difference extends into the UV too? I read that insects see more wavelengths than humans do.
I saw fireflies last year for the very first time in my life. I was on a road trip with my aunt and we were staying in a campground in Missouri. For a full grown adult, they are every bit as magical as I imagined they would be whenever I read about them as a kid.
That’s the only thing I miss about living here in Hawaii is the lack of lighting bugs! I grew up in the Midwest and they were everywhere on a summer night.
When I was a child 50 years ago or so, I was living in the Little Havana section of Miami. Late one night, I noticed a rose bush in my front yard glowing. I went outside to see what was causing it to glow, and I saw hundreds of fireflies on the bush, all glowing and blinking in unison. My mother joined me and we watched them for about an hour then they all flew away. Their light was neon green 🍏 (about the color of the green apple icon). they didn't look anything like other fireflies. They had a hump on their backs that somewhat resembled the thorns on the rose bush. I'd never seen any fireflies like them before nor since. I know other old-timers here in Florida that remember seeing that type of fireflies years ago, but as far as I know, they aren't around anymore.
Always wondered why when you hit an apparent male firefly in Ohio with a wiffle ball bat it would no longer flash but just glow continually and still be walking around but not flying. Then after several minutes it would fly away and flash normally again. Not a very nice thing to do, but we were kids and it was easier to catch them that way than with a net. Great video, learned a lot. Thanks for posting.
I remember being a kid in Philadelphia and catching fireflies in my backyard adter cookouts. Most disappointing thing about moving to California is no fireflies where I am 😢
What a wonderful video & awesome, magical footage! Thrilled to hear of Juliana's Hudson Valley Firefly Project. Enjoy that oh so special ✨magic of fireflies✨!
I’ve only seen fireflies once in my entire life. It was during a holiday on a Greek island. They were flying next to a small pile of rubble. Not the most romantic place to go courting.
I don't think it's reasonable to assume constant artificial light would have the same effect as intermittent sources. Higher ambients light levels could perhaps reduce the 'range' of the fireflies' light but I'm doubtful of it being 'disruptive' -like flashing light may be.
there's definitely way too much light pollution, especially with the advent of LED type street lighting, which are often excessively bright and the completely wrong colour temperature for nighttime.
This Insectarium series from the American Museum of Natural History is awesome! I loved the previous video focusing on dragonflies and damselflies. It was great. I visited with my family the Insectarium, Butterfly Vivarium and Invisible Worlds at the Glider Center at the AMNH in July 2023 and they were all great. (And I can’t wait for that new The Secret of the Elephants exhibit.) But do you know what would really make me happy? If the AMNH made its first paleontology and dinosaur and pterosaur-themed traveling exhibit or permanent exhibit since T. rex: The Ultimate Predator from 2019 to 2021 to include in the Glider Center made even one focusing on Theropods, sauropods, ornithischians, pterosaurs, marine reptiles, ammonites, sharks and early mammals from Mongolia in the Late Cretaceous (Like the Nemegt Formation and Djadochta Formation) or Kansas in the Late Cretaceous (Like the Niobrara Formation) or even one based on The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour, Dinosaur Proflies, Prehistoric Planet (2022-2023), Life On Our Planet, Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art, The End of the Megafauna, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals, Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, The Princeton Field Guides to Pterosaurs, Marine Reptiles and Dinosaurs and Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life or even a traveling or permanent exhibit added to the Glider Center that’s marine biology themed based on Secrets of the Whales or DK AMNH Ocean encyclopedia or even ones focusing on African cats like African lions and cheetahs and African even-toed ungulates like Thomson’s gazelles and zebras or ones focusing on red foxes and northwestern wolves and the animals living alongside them either original or based on The Secret World of the Foxes, The Secret Lives of Foxes, The Hidden World of Wolves or DisneyNature’s African Cats or BBC Earth’s Sergenti. Don’t you agree with me?
I live in New York City. On my block they installed dimmer street lamps. Since then, I've seen an uptick in rat sightings. You litterlaly can't walk down my block now without seeing them scurrying around on the sidewalk. Brighter lights discourage vermin. That's why roaches scurry when you turn on the light in your kitchen.
It’s a shame PBS doesn’t know how to properly export video for RUclips. Right click on this video and select “Stats for Nerds” where you will see that this video is measured at 7.8 dB too quiet. If that number is more than a decibel or two lower than 0.0, that’s a clear indication that PBS is either not leveling the audio in the editor or your editor program is not using the correct export settings. I suspect the latter is the case. PBS, your team really needs to address this glaring issue with your videos. It makes your team look like amateurs and it has me sitting one more quiet video away from unsubscribing. I want to watch videos with good sound, not poorly exported sound.
I was on a trip in eastern Tennessee truck camping and got out and saw one of my favorite memories... I was in a dark forest and the fireflies were out... thousands and thousands of them all around.. it was magical to see them up close and in the distance between the trees. It was far better than any C-mas display. It is still imprinted on my mind... 😇
On your mark, get set, glow! We're so excited for this series!!
Thank you!
I love watching the passing of knowledge between generations and seeing you support the next generation of entomologists. I live in CT and will turn out our house lights at night knowing this. Is there anything else we can do to support you? Maybe more volunteers to count fireflies? I'd be interested in helping 😊
Haven't seen any at my location in many years... They were so abundant in the 70's and early 80's...
i saw a bush one time that was full of fire flies all flashing in unison, it was amazing
My sister and I would catch fireflies and name them then let them go. Also, fireflies were my curfew at my grandparents' house when I was younger.
When I moved to northern TX I saw lots of fireflies in the back yard. I sprayed for mosquitoes one year and immediately saw a decline. I stoped the spraying and they were back the following year. Lesson learned. I'd rather just use repellent on myself than spray the whole area and destroy a ton of awesome fireflies.
Fireflies are such beautiful creatures.
I've never seen one IRL so I really appreciate the diffision of this family of insects.
Thank you.
I had a year of chemo about 20 years ago. One night really late/early went outside and gazillions were lighting in unison. Had no idea til then they did that here. Magic!
Last summer I got really into star gazing but whenever the fireflies were out it always became more about them.
I once saw a bunch of fireflies doing what looked like a big synchronized light show with repetitious pulses and waves of light. It was amazing and beautiful. In Sperryville, Virginia
The night i went out with a researcher specifically looking for intertidal fireflies in a county park near a bay and finding many of them inhabiting all off the mangroveand saltmarsh areas... it was pretty exciting to even see the larva glow a faint green in the wet wrackline riddled coast.
Native of Arkansas Ozarks...Lightning bugs meant the weather was good and warm!🥳 As adult, living at home for awhile after college, I had a late night restaurant shift and was usually exhausted. We lived in a wonderful spot where there were very few outside lights. The one we did have was on the other side of our house and my bedroom was on the darkest side. One night, in a brain fog, I woke up and saw a greenish pulsing light moving down the hallway towards my room. I was terrified😱...until the Firefly flew into the room😂 I was not the love he was looking for😉 It's so tragic that we have to only come to respect these beetles when we begin to lose them.
Nice series! My grandfather was an entomologist so “I got the bug” to photograph insects and these series remind me of him.
After I moved to Oregon, I cried when I realized that there are no fireflies here. 😢
When I was a little girl, I would catch them between 2 Dixie Cups and then watch them blink for a while, before I would let them go. I never outgrew my love for them …
Funny you say that because on Halloween night 2023 while visiting Klamath Falls Oregon, my family saw blue/white firefly's in a big oak tree! Keep your eyes open you might see some too! 💙
@@americanmeteoritefan9670 I just might *need* to go to Klamath Falls!!!
That's how I felt when I moved from the East to so Cal and there were not squirrels.
@@dogeared100 It's astounding how precious such common critters are when we don't have them around anymore!
p.s. I'll send you a few Oregon squirrels to you. They're always destroying the bird feeders here …
@@americanmeteoritefan9670 They are so rare here in Oregon. I wish I could make a firefly garden just for them. I'm so glad you got to see them!
I am obsessed with those critters...
For nearly 20 years I have been breeding Sardinian glowworms.
I love the evolutionary perspective of this video!
I have noticed this week they are starting to appear here, as the summer approaches here in Brazil, but my favorite bioluminescent insect is the fire beetle, and they will only appear in the middle of summer, around december. They don't blink and they are really bright, impressing anyone who witness green lights flying around.
Fireflies seem so magical and it's odd to see them in full light just walking around on a person's hand. Like - that's a beetle. It looks like a lovebug! (scourge of the US Southeast)
But they're much much nicer than lovebugs. I can't pick out a particular single memory, I've been enchanted with them ever since moving into the state of Mississippi. I grew up in western Texas: very arid, very flat, no trees to speak of and certainly no fireflies! (Some very attractive moths, though.) So coming here to this green wet place...that first summer I thought I'd die from the humidity, I didn't believe I could EVER adjust to be comfortable. And then I saw my first group of fireflies and forgot about being sweaty and sticky and cranky. I stayed out there until my mother yelled at me for it. Fascinating to understand that each species has its own color of light - I wonder if that color difference extends into the UV too? I read that insects see more wavelengths than humans do.
Deep Look sent me! And I'm so glad they did!
I live in Wisconsin. In my neighborhood, I used to see them all over the place when I was a kid and in my early teens. Now I almost never see them.
Just got here thank you deep look!
Wonderful little creatures.
The first flash of the season is one of my FAVORITE magical moments in nature.
I saw fireflies last year for the very first time in my life. I was on a road trip with my aunt and we were staying in a campground in Missouri. For a full grown adult, they are every bit as magical as I imagined they would be whenever I read about them as a kid.
I love your firefly pin! It's so nice :) Thanks for doing this series!
5:40 reminds me of Halsey's song Ashley on the album Manic
That’s the only thing I miss about living here in Hawaii is the lack of lighting bugs! I grew up in the Midwest and they were everywhere on a summer night.
When I was a child 50 years ago or so, I was living in the Little Havana section of Miami. Late one night, I noticed a rose bush in my front yard glowing. I went outside to see what was causing it to glow, and I saw hundreds of fireflies on the bush, all glowing and blinking in unison. My mother joined me and we watched them for about an hour then they all flew away.
Their light was neon green 🍏 (about the color of the green apple icon). they didn't look anything like other fireflies. They had a hump on their backs that somewhat resembled the thorns on the rose bush. I'd never seen any fireflies like them before nor since. I know other old-timers here in Florida that remember seeing that type of fireflies years ago, but as far as I know, they aren't around anymore.
Bright smile, genuine enthusiasm. Cool doctor
Always wondered why when you hit an apparent male firefly in Ohio with a wiffle ball bat it would no longer flash but just glow continually and still be walking around but not flying. Then after several minutes it would fly away and flash normally again.
Not a very nice thing to do, but we were kids and it was easier to catch them that way than with a net.
Great video, learned a lot. Thanks for posting.
I remember being a kid in Philadelphia and catching fireflies in my backyard adter cookouts. Most disappointing thing about moving to California is no fireflies where I am 😢
I LOVE JESSICA. THANK YOU 4 EVERYTHING
Fire flys are beautiful and I love that they communicate with their hide end😊
What a wonderful video & awesome, magical footage! Thrilled to hear of Juliana's Hudson Valley Firefly Project. Enjoy that oh so special ✨magic of fireflies✨!
I miss seeing them. We have a few in Colorado but nothing like back home in CT
I’ve only seen fireflies once in my entire life. It was during a holiday on a Greek island. They were flying next to a small pile of rubble. Not the most romantic place to go courting.
This video is wonderful🤩 I came from Deep Look and I am not disappointed 🥰 love the passion of them both ❤
I see PBS Terra went with the spicier title XD
This series is gonna be awesome! TY!
I don't think it's reasonable to assume constant artificial light would have the same effect as intermittent sources.
Higher ambients light levels could perhaps reduce the 'range' of the fireflies' light but I'm doubtful of it being 'disruptive' -like flashing light may be.
In puerto rico DEEP LOOK SENT ME AND IM LOVING THESE SO FUN WOOO !
Not a fan of bugs but fire flies & ants are my fav. This was an amazing video!!!!
there's definitely way too much light pollution, especially with the advent of LED type street lighting, which are often excessively bright and the completely wrong colour temperature for nighttime.
"Here talking with a high school researcher" ... "So it's like if we're at a nightclub". 🤣
Please turn off all outdoor lights. it's nice out
Here in California we have several species of glowworms, most are larval fireflies that aren't luminous as adults unfortunately. I wonder why not?
In bharat we also had them but now they are nearly extinct. Previous year I only saw one
They are very common here in Brazil, however they are very different than the ones in the video
Do fireflies create light with the same biochemical reaction as deep-sea invertebrates and glowy cave worms?
Major ❤
Took me a minute to realize the doctor studied boneless life, instead of being boneless.
My family saw blue white firefly's on Halloween night 2023 in Klamath Falls Oregon.
This Insectarium series from the American Museum of Natural History is awesome! I loved the previous video focusing on dragonflies and damselflies. It was great. I visited with my family the Insectarium, Butterfly Vivarium and Invisible Worlds at the Glider Center at the AMNH in July 2023 and they were all great. (And I can’t wait for that new The Secret of the Elephants exhibit.) But do you know what would really make me happy? If the AMNH made its first paleontology and dinosaur and pterosaur-themed traveling exhibit or permanent exhibit since T. rex: The Ultimate Predator from 2019 to 2021 to include in the Glider Center made even one focusing on Theropods, sauropods, ornithischians, pterosaurs, marine reptiles, ammonites, sharks and early mammals from Mongolia in the Late Cretaceous (Like the Nemegt Formation and Djadochta Formation) or Kansas in the Late Cretaceous (Like the Niobrara Formation) or even one based on The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour, Dinosaur Proflies, Prehistoric Planet (2022-2023), Life On Our Planet, Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art, The End of the Megafauna, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals, Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, The Princeton Field Guides to Pterosaurs, Marine Reptiles and Dinosaurs and Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life or even a traveling or permanent exhibit added to the Glider Center that’s marine biology themed based on Secrets of the Whales or DK AMNH Ocean encyclopedia or even ones focusing on African cats like African lions and cheetahs and African even-toed ungulates like Thomson’s gazelles and zebras or ones focusing on red foxes and northwestern wolves and the animals living alongside them either original or based on The Secret World of the Foxes, The Secret Lives of Foxes, The Hidden World of Wolves or DisneyNature’s African Cats or BBC Earth’s Sergenti. Don’t you agree with me?
I live in New York City. On my block they installed dimmer street lamps. Since then, I've seen an uptick in rat sightings. You litterlaly can't walk down my block now without seeing them scurrying around on the sidewalk. Brighter lights discourage vermin. That's why roaches scurry when you turn on the light in your kitchen.
Honestly how aliens see us probably
If they even exist that is. Or if they are close enough to observe us.
Love it!!!
Where do they go in the winter. ?
WOOHOO
Light
In Portland, we don’t have fireflies, unfortunately. We do have plenty of meth addicts with headlights, though.
Everything is beetle 🗿
2:26
They're just like us.
Jessica discipula mala est.
Yes, indeed. 😂
Deep look sent me
Deep Look sent me
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Season 2… Season 2… Season 2… Season 2…
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I like bug butts and I cannot light 🙃💡!!
I’ve loved lightening bugs since my childhood.
Cool
These new leds light look sick, can i buy them on amazon?
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They use Morse code.
🔥🪰
"Fireflies' Love Language Is Their Butts"
Oh, I knew a girl like that in college....
Like a Kardashian, then?
I Love Jonna Napire 💜💚♥️
MAY 2, 2024
Also, YES BLACK WOMAN!!!
Same for all the gays in Florida
You got to change the thumbnail PLEASE!!!!!
It looks like a radioactive Cocarach
I'm sorry miss scientist, beetles are bugs
Too much talk and no action!
It’s a shame PBS doesn’t know how to properly export video for RUclips. Right click on this video and select “Stats for Nerds” where you will see that this video is measured at 7.8 dB too quiet. If that number is more than a decibel or two lower than 0.0, that’s a clear indication that PBS is either not leveling the audio in the editor or your editor program is not using the correct export settings. I suspect the latter is the case. PBS, your team really needs to address this glaring issue with your videos. It makes your team look like amateurs and it has me sitting one more quiet video away from unsubscribing. I want to watch videos with good sound, not poorly exported sound.
Can't hear anything in this video, way too quiet.