‘Count the Light’ night at Clemson

‘The Vanishing Firefly Project at Clemson University hosts the first of two “Count the Light” nights tomorrow night at the South Carolina Botanical Garden to give the public a chance to count fireflies together and help researchers see if their numbers are declining. “Count the Light” will be 8 to 9:30 p-m. A second count takes place July 11. This is the fifth year of the Vanisghing Firefly Project, which invites citizen-scientists to count the number of fireflies they see in their fields of visions in 60 second and record them through the project’s smartphone app or website. Data are being collected from different habitats to determine the impact of human activity on firefly populations.