2025 Virtual Firefly Symposium: Firefly Research and Community Science

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Join the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation for this free, three-day virtual symposium on firefly research and conservation in the United States and Canada. Each day of the symposium consists of six presentations. The theme of Day Two is Firefly Research and Community Science.

This event is intended for anyone interested in fireflies and their conservation in the US and Canada, including conservation practitioners, agency biologists, environmental educators, community scientists, academic researchers, and firefly enthusiasts.

The Firefly Atlas and this symposium are supported by the BAND Foundation.
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Cover Photo: Richard Joyce / Xerces Society

Timestamps:
3:25 How to glow: fireflies in the western US—Christy Bills

25:15 Tracking Twinkles: fireflies as indicators of urban greenspace quality—Ana Livia Oliveira

43:30 Three years of Firefly Atlas: Stories of fireflyers filling gaps in the map—Richard Joyce

1:03:55 Using trail cameras to discover and monitor firefly populations—Cheryl Mollohan

1:27:08 Promises and pitfalls in firefly DNA barcoding—Sarah E. Lower

1:50:12 How Tennessee State Parks helped connect researchers and volunteers to learn more about Photuris walldoxeyi larvae—Jeff Hill