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Costa Rica Outdoors, Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, Playa San Miguel Costa Rica, playamart, Pretoma, the zeebra, Zeebra Designs
(Originally published in Costa Rica Outdoors )
“Do you think we’re going to get more rain?” Kim asked with a touch of dread in her voice.
From my bright-blue plastic chair in the open-air palapa, I turned and peered into the soggy evening before answering her question. “I’ve been told that lightning bugs are reliable indicators of rain; the closer they are to the ground, the sooner we’ll be getting rain.”
With keen attention, we eyed the twinkling fireflies that – to our collective discontent – hovered inches from the grass line. “When I walked here fifteen minutes ago, they were three or four feet higher,” I added. Kim Tomczak and Nick Dodrill, volunteers for Pretoma’s 2009 sea turtle project, studied the ground-level placement of the lightning bugs.