CU Boulder researchers are working to understand Front Range firefly populations, which put on evening light shows for a brief period between late June and early July.
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Owen Martin has a simple remedy for anyone who doesn’t believe fireflies live in Colorado.
The University of Colorado Boulder Ph.D. student arranges visits to the places where he studies the bioluminescent insects. On a recent evening, he led an expedition to a marshy meadow near Boulder Reservoir, where the beetles rose from tall grasses after a series of afternoon thunderstorms. As lightning pierced the horizon, the bugs first blinked, then traced longer arcs of light into the fading dusk.
