Rare firefly species spotted at Tucson’s Saguaro National Park | Arizona Daily Star

Henry Brean, Arizona Daily Star | “Each year in late spring, the forest fills with fireflies that flash in unison at Great Smoky
Mountains National Park.

The synchronous show draws so many spectators to western Tennessee that the park service has to hold a lottery to limit the number of vehicles in the area at the height of the annual mating display.

Saguaro National Park will probably never have that problem, but it does have its own small
population of synchronous fireflies.”

Keep reading at https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/synchronous-firefly-saguaro-national-park/article_cd002bb4-5458-11ef-9065-8f9b5e2b9027.html.

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