'Seeing these fireflies for the first time is magical. The entire forest is flashing together in unison.'
for firefly tourism. “But the dark side is that you get tens of thousands of people that descend on the Smokies in a typical season.”
“It’s an amazing experience so you want to walk out into the forest where there aren’t so many people and lay down,” Lewis says. “But you’re laying down on top of firefly larvae.” The synchronous fireflies typically start to come out around 9:30 p.m.—“It’s like clockwork,” Nichols says—and, within two hours, the swarm is likely to be as big as it’s going to get that evening.just before or after the festival
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