Fireflies Have a Mating Problem: The Lights Are Always On

Fireflies are among many other insects currently struggling with the increased threat of habitat loss due to pesticides and pollution. However, light pollution is becoming a problem as it it causing Fireflies troubles while trying to mate. In order to breed, male fireflies use their glowing ability to signal females. Females also use their glowing ability to signal back to the males. However, billboards, streetlights, and houses are beginning to prevent fireflies form pairing up. Fireflies could eventually face global extinction because of light pollution, habitat loss, and habitat degradation.

I feel that the extinction of fireflies could cause a large problem in many ecosystems. Insects tend to be crucial to their ecosystems and could even cause havoc in the food webs. At the moment, I am not use of a solution to fix this, but one is needed to prevent chaos in ecosystems all around the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/fireflies-mating-light-pollution.html

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  1. chrheaFebruary 4, 2020 at 5:29 AM

    Such an interesting effect of light pollution! And you are right that insects are crucial to their ecosystems.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2020 at 5:16 AM

    This is something really interesting that many people wouldn't think of being endangered because we see them all the time. It's unfortunate that our ways of polluting the environment have such a negative effect on a species we take for granted.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2020 at 9:13 AM

    To help the fireflies breed should there be designated areas with no light pollution in a suitable climate where if light pollution exists the producers of the light should be taxed?

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2020 at 9:32 AM

    Has there been any solutions offered to stop this? Obviously it is not easy to stop light pollution, but perhaps designated spots could be used to help them reproduce, but I'm not entirely sure of the plausibility of that.

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