For the first time, a firefly was recommended to be added to the threatened species list. Its home? Bethany Beach. The Bethany Beach firefly, a rare subspecies of firefly found in the freshwater ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to declare a nocturnal insect called the Bethany Beach firefly as threatened, ...
Every June and July, the Bethany Beach firefly emerges along the shores of Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. It flickers with ...
WASHINGTON— In response to a petition and legal agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the Bethany Beach firefly as a ...
In 1949, Frank A. McDermott discovered what would become a new species of firefly in Bethany Beach. In 1953, it was named Photuris bethaniensis. But after that, people lost track of the firefly ...
The US Fish and Wildlife Service now wants to classify the Bethany Beach firefly as a “threatened” species. The U.S. government is proposing to declare the Bethany Beach firefly as threatened ...
according to a new study The Fish and Wildlife Service will consider granting federal protections to the Bethany Beach firefly, which is rapidly losing its coastal habitat to development and ...