The Impact of Environment Situation on Fireflies and the Contribution of Fireflies on Environment Situation

Abstract

Firefly is an adorable insect which is often seen in our daily life as virtual characters or mascots due to its beautiful appearance. It is famous for its glowing abdomen. It can be colorful but mostly yellow and green. The biological light is rare which attracts lots of scholars and artists to study. However, after taking research on this specie, people start to ignore it. With the technology developing and land extension, they are suffering from land losing and different kind of pollution. There are countable studies on firefly protecting that lead the population of this cute creature decline steeply. The topic of this paper is about the factors which influence a lot on the population of firefly. There concentrates information from some papers related to firefly, environment pollution and bioindicator. Wishfully, this paper will be helpful to those who want to protect fireflies and those who can explore the application of fireflies. After researching, the results are about the impact of environment situation on fireflies and the contribution of fireflies on environment situation. Firefly is threatened by three aspects which are land loss, light pollution and water pollution. Land loss is due to the commercial district and residential district building of urbanization. Light pollution will disturb fireflies to find their companion and mate. Water pollution and land pollution such as insecticide will kill firefly larvae and adults directly in chemical ways. Those above are about how people gradually pushing fireflies to distinct. Its not fair of the way people treat wild fireflies. They have a lot of contribution down for people. They have controlled the number of ampullaria gigas which is a horribly threatening invasive species that confuses people for long. It is also a bioindicator which can test the level of light pollution with a relatively low cost. The biological fluorescence is pretty in the night. It has enlightened quite a few literature and art composers to create many excellent works. It is used to educate children and to witness love when wedding. Thus, the value of fireflies can be seen from this paper and how significant it is to protect wild fireflies.