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Natural History Museum entomologist highlights Western Firefly Project and local sightings
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Christy Bills of the Natural History Museum of Utah briefed the Utah County Commission about the Western Firefly Project, describing citizen-science methods, a restricted sighting map, specimen curation, and a late-May to early-July flight window for local firefly populations.
Christy Bills, entomologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah, told the Utah County Commission on May 14 that the Western Firefly Project is a citizen-science effort documenting bioluminescent firefly populations across the Intermountain West.
Bills said the project, which began in 2013, uses public reports, postcards to parks and campgrounds and media outreach to locate populations. "A citizen science project is one where researchers need a lot of eyes on something," she said, adding that the team verifies new reports…
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