How A ‘Firefly Course’ Is Saving Japan’s Favorite Glowing Insect

Photo caption: Fireflies glow along Japan’s Hino River some 450 miles west of Tokyo. Photo credit: Nature Picture Library / Alamy. Article by Shoshi Parks. Atlas Obscura – July 25, 2023.

At the third meeting of the Moriyama City Firefly Forest Museum’s eight-week Firefly Course, a conservation training program for adults, egg collection begins. Each female Genji firefly, Nipponoluciola cruciata, can lay up to 500 of the caviar-like orbs, carefully depositing them across the mossy banks of rivers and streams in blankets of pale yellow. […]

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