12% of firefly species are "Near Threatened" or worse.
We should absolutely NOT be "protecting" from them.
Capitalism is all about making threats out of innocent things. I hate how transparent it is. Like who sees fireflies and thinks of protecting your home with industrial poison that's been proven to cause cancer?
Like what do they even do? Make places too magical? Eat too many garden pests?
It's interesting that land owners get to decide what is a weed or pest regardless of who or what was there first.
Like that's part of the 'family values' American nostalgia. It's one of the things that show up in boomer posts about 'kids these days.'
I know the US and capitalism in general are full of contradictions, but it's bewildering to see how bad it is.
spraying the lawn with insecticides
"Why don't kids these days go outside and watch the fireflies anymore?"
Do fireflies ever even "infest" a place? Plus they're cool and are amongst the least creepy of bugs, get bent
The only way I’ll protect my house from fireflies is by putting them in a jar to take them back outside if they fly in
