I can't remember many summers, if any, that we had significant fireflies into mid-August. Extensive Google research corroborates my memory and indicates that fireflies typically emerge as adults until about mid-July, and live for two weeks to breed. While exact timing will vary, the story is that after August these guys should be on their way out.
Well it's basically mid-September and they are all over the f'n place. They are on the lawns in Piscataway, there's a billion of them in the grasses along Route 1. If you didn't know any better by the weather or these fireflies, you'd swear it was July. I thought maybe the conditions the last two days would knock them out but they took their momentary setback in stride. I assume many of you are seeing the same thing I am.
Being that the weather is generally forecasted to be AN temps and humidity for the foreseeable future, I think I could keep seeing these guys until, I'll guess, September 25th. Any takers?