Posted on 05/16/2019 8:08:58 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Environmental groups are asking federal officials to take emergency action to protect a species of firefly unique to southern Delaware.
In an emergency petition filed Wednesday with the Department of the Interior, environmentalists claim the Bethany Beach firefly is at immediate risk of extinction because of imminent destruction of a significant portion of its habitat.
The filing comes partly in response to a planned residential development that would be accessible by a unique wooden cul-de-sac that has been built on pilings over one of the freshwater marshes where the firefly lives.
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I miss DDT.
Eye protection for a fly? Thems gotta be some small glasses.
Wasn’t natural to start with....pilings...
It’s been well proven that the little critters in the wild always love structures that us humans build
For example the environmentists were her all up in arms over the desert solar arrays and all the turtles and birds and everything set right under them because they provide shade
Then they got all mad about the Alaska pipeline but because you have to heat the oil the things warm and all the Caribou and reindeer sit right next to it and doesn’t against it because it’s warm in outside it’s -40°
I’ll bet 50 bucks once they build these nice houses on the pilings all those fireflies will just sit right under Them and have a great old time
Give them some safety goggles and be done with it.;-)
Delaware, huh? Wasn’t there a long serving senator from there named Rufus T. Firefly?
The firefly is unfit
Therefore it need not survive. It is certainly not a distinct species but rather a splitter described sub species.
“Let me tell you about endangered species, all right? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling. It’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that? Interfering with nature. Over 90 percent of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone. They’re extinct.”
“We didn’t kill them all. They just disappeared. That’s what nature does. We’re so self-important. Everybody is going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. And the greatest arrogance of all, save the planet. What?”
-George Carlin
Wait until they start nesting and find ways into the houses on pilings. Like having a ladybug infestation.
Itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie goggles. Made in China.
Mother Nature’s in charge; we’re just along for the ride.
My DNA is unique so I should be protected too.
The use of the label “endangered” does not mean that the entire species is endangered, but rather that species is in low numbers in a particular area.
There may be, for instance,10s of thousands of bald eagles in Alaska, but only a few hundred in northern Wisconsin, therefore that eagles in northern Wisconsin are “endangered”.
So the media and their allies in various environmental wacko groups hype it up making it look like, unless something is done, bald eagles will become extinct. And so without further thought or discussion the public swallows ...
“The use of the label “endangered” does not mean that the entire species is endangered, but rather that species is in low numbers in a particular area.”
Eco-wacko-nutballs use it that way, but thinking people know better.
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