Reply #5: I suppose there will always be micro environments...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

that survive if they can be protected enough from human destruction. Some animals and plants will survive in those niches, but they remain threatened by their own mobility and by the needs of growing human population which ALWAYS overrules.

I don't think fireflies migrate, so they would be less affected by widespread changes. I think declining pesticide usage has driven the resurgence of fireflies. We live way out in the country where aside from agriculture, almost no one uses pesticides on their property.