I’ve only ever seen them at sea level, in warm and humid places, usually during the middle to later months of the summer.

For context, I grew up in the 80s and 90s as a kid, and that’s when you used to see a lot of them. But ever since then, they become rare and rare. I knew that, eventually, they’d probably go extinct. I realize this back in the 90s or something.

If I really think about it, the last time I saw one might’ve been between eight and 10 years ago. And I only saw one. And I was sitting in the backyard of a bar in Brooklyn, during a very hot humid summer night after it had been raining, and I was sitting with a bunch of friends and then mentioned to them that this may be the last firefly you ever see.

I really am sad that was right