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Snap Chats: Fireflies light up a north central Florida backyard

WUFT | By Emiliano Luna
Published April 30, 2026 at 10:42 AM EDT
Fireflies are hard to find in Florida. Development, landscaping, light poisioning, and pesticide use have drastically reduced areas where these insects can thrive. This image was made April 10, 2015, in the photographer's back yard in North Florida. Her three-acre wooded property is adjacent to San Felasco State Preserve and provides just the right habitat for firefly metamorphisis, putting on a show every spring when they emerge to mate. Photo by: Kristen Grace
Kristen Grace
Fireflies are hard to find in Florida. Development, landscaping, light poisioning, and pesticide use have drastically reduced areas where these insects can thrive. This image was made April 10, 2015, in the photographer's back yard in North Florida. Her three-acre wooded property is adjacent to San Felasco State Preserve and provides just the right habitat for firefly metamorphisis, putting on a show every spring when they emerge to mate. Photo by: Kristen Grace

Today, a conversation with Kristen Grace, a photographer for the Florida Museum of Natural History. She photographed emerging fireflies one April evening back in 2015. WUFT producer Emiliano Luna spoke with her at her home, and conducted an interview with her in the exact spot where those fireflies emerged
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Emiliano is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org.
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