Oh, I didn’t think of that. They’re just sitting ducks.
I’ve read that place is that spray for mosquitoes end up wiping out the fire fly population. I was really surprised we have no mosquitoes here, I fully expected to have them. Especially with our pond. But luckily no mosquitoes and the fireflies are still abundant.
I grew up in an area where tanker trucks with sprayers would come through spraying DDT for mosquitoes and we had plenty of lightning bugs or fireflies. If spraying for mosquitoes kills them it’s something they started using after DDT was banned.
We trust the birds and the dragonflies to get the mosquitos. The fireflies are amazing this year.