Archive: https://archive.today/deimJ From the post: >>“This is more than a research milestone. It’s a breakthrough that opens the door to restoring firefly populations across the American West and beyond,” said Rich Reading, Ph.D. Vice President of Science and Conservation at Butterfly Pavilion, in a press release. “Fireflies capture imaginations, and they also tell us about the health of our planet. This moment proves we can take action to help safeguard their future.” The cycle started with the emergence of a female firefly born and raised under human care. She mated with wild-collected male fireflies and laid viable eggs. Then, on July 19, one of the eggs hatched into a larva, confirming the entire lifecycle: egg, larva, pupa, adult and repeating back to egg.