[pessimizer]

I don't think that's relevant to this article, unless you consider fireflies light pollution.

My firefly stories are from the late-70s and early-80s, on the south side of Chicago, as urban as you can possibly be, and every summer night all the kids would be outside catching fireflies and letting them go. I live on the same sort of a street now, still in Chicago, and I can't remember the last time I saw a firefly.

edit: my surroundings haven't gotten brighter. When I was a kid, there was literally a Sears a block away. Lousy with fireflies.

[jeffbee]

That there were fireflies all over the brightly lit urban area, confused and unable to mate, is not inconsistent with the notion that man-made lights are hurting fireflies.