\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pennsylvania Firefly Festival in Tionesta this weekend will celebrate a unique species of firefly that flashes in unison, creating a stunning display in the Allegheny National Forest. How the festival beganIn 2012, scientists from Tennessee visited Ken and Peggy Butler’s bed-and-breakfast during a survey for synchronous fireflies in Forest County.Their visit sparked the Butlers’ curiosity and led to the creation of the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival, now in its 14th year. A rare natural display”They want to flash all at the same time. That’s appealing to the females that are on the ground. So they all flash six times very quickly. Then they go dark,” Peggy Butler said. “So when the whole forest canopy goes dark, people in the audience, you hear this, ‘Wow. What was that?’ They just can’t believe that this is what they’re seeing,” Ken Butler said. Guided tours of the synchronous fireflies are already fully booked, but visitors are still invited to attend the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival this weekend, June 26 and 27. The event is located in Tionesta, near Erie.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania Firefly Festival in Tionesta this weekend will celebrate a unique species of firefly that flashes in unison, creating a stunning display in the Allegheny National Forest. <\/p>\n
How the festival began<\/p>\n
In 2012, scientists from Tennessee visited Ken and Peggy Butler’s bed-and-breakfast during a survey for synchronous fireflies in Forest County.<\/p>\n
Their visit sparked the Butlers’ curiosity and led to the creation of the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival, now in its 14th year. <\/p>\n
A rare natural display<\/p>\n
“They want to flash all at the same time. That’s appealing to the females that are on the ground. So they all flash six times very quickly. Then they go dark,” Peggy Butler said. “So when the whole forest canopy goes dark, people in the audience, you hear this, ‘Wow. What was that?’ They just can’t believe that this is what they’re seeing,” Ken Butler said. <\/p>\n
Guided tours of the synchronous fireflies are already fully booked, but visitors are still invited to attend the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival this weekend, June 26 and 27. The event is located in Tionesta, near Erie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Firefly Festival in Tionesta this weekend will celebrate a unique species of firefly that flashes in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[66830,38038,98204,28,98205,30,29,98207,98206,98208],"class_list":["post-226235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allegheny-national-forest","tag-forest-county","tag-ken-and-peggy-butlers-bed-and-breakfast","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-firefly-festival","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-synchronous-fireflies","tag-tionesta","tag-unique-species-of-firefly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}