Looking for a great at-home science research opportunity this summer? The Science Museum, Boston and researchers from Tufts University and Fitchburg State College (MA) are leading a research project to collect field data about fireflies. You may be of a certain age where you remember playing with fireflies in your yard every summer evening. Have you seen fireflies in those kinds of numbers lately? (or were they REALLY that numerous during our youth?)
The Firefly Watch website has a brief overview of firefly biology and the research protocol is simple, taking approximately 10 minutes per observation period.
Register your observation site on Firefly Watch