Nice to see that "swatting with badminton rackets" isn't endangering them enough to make the article. As someone who was raised in a firefly-dense rural area, let me tell you, the thrill of the bioluminescent sparks is the closest I got to cocaine as a kid.
Seeing fireflies for the first time, in my 30s, was (and still is) magical.
This channel has some fairly unique practical information on raising them (and some other things as well) for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/@PeppersnGlowworms/playlists
> Herein, we define ‘lost species’ as those with no confirmed observation record within the past decade.
Confirmed from another source [0], which attempts to formalize the language (not that long ago!).
[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/lost-bu...