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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Seth Borenstein

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

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On a muggy July evening, Delaware state biologist Jason Davis is doing what kids have done for ages: Trying to catch a firefly. It's nowhere near as easy as the summer evenings of his own childhood, with only a few in this large wetland between a bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

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