About Find the Fireflies
Find the Fireflies is a public education project helping people rediscover the wonder of fireflies through free resources, practical habitat guidance, field observation, and science-informed stewardship.
Fireflies become part of our memories and stories. This project exists to help people understand them, find them, and make a little more room for them where they live.
About Amber
Amber Elder
Independent Firefly Observer, Artist & Educator
What began as a simple backyard curiosity turned into years of late-night walks, field notes, paintings, questions, and more conversations about fireflies than I ever expected to have.
I work independently, creating resources and presentations that help people notice more, understand more, and make a little more room for fireflies where they live.
Public Education & Research
FindTheFireflies.org is the public education home of the project.
My deeper field observations and species-specific work, especially on Photuris frontalis, live separately at PhoturisFrontalis.org .
The light shines in the darkness…
Sometimes it takes slowing down to see it.