New Yorkers are lucky to have at least 40 species of fireflies sharing the state with them. You may know that fireflies are not flies, but rather beetles in the family Lampyridae. Most, but not all of them, flash to communicate. There are three different groups of flashing fireflies that can commonly be seen in New York in the Photuris, Photinus, and Pyractomena genera.
I didn’t know there were so many kinds of fireflies! In retrospect, I’m not surprised, I guess I just haven’t thought about it before.
