Are the fireflies sold online wild or artificially raised?

sellers will swear that they are farmed, but in fact, most of them are wild. Fireflies are carnivorous insects, and there are many kinds. Different kinds of fireflies eat different foods, and their living environments are also very different, some are terrestrial and some are aquatic. If you want to raise fireflies in large quantities, it will be simpler to raise only one or a few, and the domestication cost will be lower. If the fireflies sold online are a single species, then the possibility of raising them is higher.

From p>214 to 216, Watched Fireflies bought fireflies in batches and many times on an e-commerce platform, from which 11 species were identified. Among them, there are terrestrial species such as black firefly with brown edge and window firefly in Phnom Penh, and aquatic species such as yellow-edged firefly, striped firefly and Wuhan firefly.

according to the tracking survey of fireflies, the delivery locations of fireflies sold on an e-commerce platform are concentrated in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, Tunchang, Hainan and Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. There are also many kinds of fireflies shipped in the same area. The supply time of fireflies in various places coincides with the peak of fireflies in the local natural environment.

By means of molecular biology, the fireflies delivered from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province and Tunchang, Hainan Province were compared with the local wild fireflies. It was found that the molecular biological indexes of both online shopping and wild individuals were highly consistent as long as they came from the same area.

Based on these evidences, it is unlikely that the fireflies sold on an e-commerce platform come from farming.