“Fireflies and Environment”
Dark can be silent and may not be everyone's preferred habitat, but a little firefly can illuminate the dark with its lighting luminescence and perfectly glow up the environment. I grew up in rural part of Chennai surrounded by a sacred grove, two lakes, 7-8 small ponds, 40-45 round wells, , and a copious 100 acres of agricultural land in my neighbourhood. Since my childhood (the early 2000s), the two lakes in our vicinity catered to the needs of our people in several ways like a playground during summer, a fishing ground during monsoon, a source of water for domestic use and agriculture, an open swimming pool for the kids and a place of recreation for elders in the evenings. My first acquaintance with fireflies goes back to my childhood days when there were much darker places, fewer street lights with sodium bulbs, and remnant vegetation near my home. Our lakes and barren agricultural land are their prime habitat; we see fireflies slowly moving, emitting light, glittering like gol...