04/10 - Working Wednesday!

12. Their numbers are declining

If you’re seeing fewer fireflies each summer, you’re not alone. Anecdotal evidence suggests that firefly populations may be on the decline, most likely due to a combination of light pollution, pesticide use and habitat destruction. For example, according to Smithsonian.com, if a field where fireflies live is paved over, the fireflies don’t migrate to another field, they just disappear forever.

probably why

 

It's okay, Eileen, I didn't want to catch your hits anyway.

The kind that light up also aren't native to like, half the US.

 

Dafuq is a lightning bug

 

firefly

 

You're like 60 and you've never seen a firefly?

 

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and i am the blind one?

 

Fireflies aren't real.

 

certain cats aren't either

 

didnt they cancel that awful show after 1 season?

seriously tho i didnt know these things existed

 

Man your childhood must havgebeen so deprived

 

Want me to mail you some?

 

you think Whedon was creative enough to make up that word?

 

Apparently there are lame fireflies that don't light up in other parts of the US. They aren't cool at all.

 

ftfy

 

He's doing his best.

 

I can't wait to see what @ThisPoorGuy write about this on the weekly review.

 

It did that to me to yesterday, and yeah, I guess you could call it an article. I refreshed the page after 3 tries and then it worked. I wrote them a note about it, and they responded with a penny and a note:

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,
You've received a bonus from Applied Cognition Adelaide for work related to -----------.
The value of your bonus is: $0.01 USD
The Requester included this note:
Thank you for letting me know about your difficulty. I am not sure exactly what happened in your initial launch as we have not been able to replicate it. In the meantime, I will keep an eye out for similar issues in the future.