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Allegheny National Forest June 2012 Firefly Survey Forest and Warren Counties, PA.
By Faust et al.
U.S. Forest Service, USDA. 34 pp., 2012
Cite: 940182 with citation markup [cite:940182]
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Lynn Faust, Raphael De Cock, Kathrin Stanger Hall, Zach Marion, Sarah Sander. 2012. Allegheny National Forest June 2012 Firefly Survey Forest and Warren Counties, PA. U.S. Forest Service, USDA. 34 pp.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 18 June, 2014 - 12:18pm

In a lab, 12 Photuris larvae
In a lab, 12 Photuris larvae were seen eating the roots of milkweed. Reports of milkweed-firefly associations involving at least four more firefly species in two more genera, Lucidota atra (Olivier), Photinus indictus (LeConte), Pyropyga decipiens (Harris), and a species of Pyractomena Melsheimer, that span 90 years in the eastern US are given, along with recent reports of similar behaviors seen from Texas to Canada. slope game
… junkocoon, 28 August, 2023 - 10:16pm

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