If anyone cares anything concerning wildlife, this is a banner year for at least one species of firefly, and their flashing activity is just peaking this week. I do not know much about fireflies other than there are thousands of species worldwide, many of them in the United States. I also know that depending on the species, there are different flashing patterns, different times of the evening when they flash, and even different heights off the ground when they most often flash. In fact, some species actually do not flash and are technically not fireflies, although they are biologically classieifed as such.
Anyway, the firefly species that have been putting on a show lately seem to peak about an hour or so after sunset. They seem to be at their most abundant over seldom-mowed grassy, weedy fields. They have a twinkling type of flash rather than a longer, blinking flash. If you find the right location where they are abundant, and just stare at their show, it really is pretty incredible. It might be worth a trip outside some evening soon, and maybe even a short trip in a car, especially if you had an urge to go out for ice cream anyway.
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