A public service announcement: I wrote about Michael McCarthy’s necessary book The Moth Snowstorm for Humans and Nature. I hope you’ll pop over and read it.
Biophilia must be political.
For the love of moth snowstorms
2 responses to “For the love of moth snowstorms”
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I remember seeing lots of fireflies and bats in our back yard as a child in New Jersey. We used to catch the fireflies and put them in jars as lanterns (though they were always released before we went in to bed). My impression is that there weren’t very many the last time I was there about 10 years ago. I suppose this is just another example of our loss.
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Both fireflies and bats have declined, bats especially so with white-nose syndrome but also because of all the other ills loss of habitat, destruction of food species, poison. Japan has the best records for fireflies and has seen a precipitous decline in the last 100 years; here in the US the decline isn’t been as well documented scientifically, because nobody was paying attention, but it certainly is known anecdotally.
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