{"id":48417,"date":"2026-11-01T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48417"},"modified":"2026-11-01T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:05:48","slug":"lost-firefly-species-rediscovered-in-delaware-after-43-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48417","title":{"rendered":"Lost Firefly Species Rediscovered in Delaware After 43 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than two dozen firefly species in the U.S. and Canada haven&#8217;t been seen for at least a decade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Similar-firefly-illustration.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5000156538618077;width:242px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-firefly-lost-for-43-years-is-back-and-its-far-from-the-only-one-missing-2000833227\">Lost Firefly Species Rediscovered in Delaware After 43 Years<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">til fireflies have unique flashing patterns depending on the species.  and you have to look at their junk to determine actual species:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Heckscher:<\/strong> This species has a unique flash pattern. Once I saw the flash pattern, I was confident I had relocated the species. However, to be absolutely sure, the male genitalia needed to be examined to rule out all closely related species.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two dozen firefly species in the U.S. and Canada haven&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[444,2338,22],"class_list":["post-48417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bugs","tag-fireflies","tag-science","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48422,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417\/revisions\/48422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}