The latest newsletter from the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival recaps the 2024 Firefly Festival Week, brings you stories from the bioluminescent world and testing water with luciferase, the key component of bioluminescence.

Firefly Educational Services

The PA Firefly Festival Firefly Educational Services are available to help you build your own firefly curriculum for free and provide full-day immersive firefly themed STEAM education programming for your school.

They can also provide a firefly presentation for your special interest group like scouts or a garden club, for a donation to the PF Firefly Festival nonprofit organization.

Training is also available for staff and faculty as well as private eco-tour guides for nominal fees.

Visit the Firefly Educational Services webpage for more information.

2024 Firefly Festival

The PA Firefly Festival in Forest County is officially sold out. More than 2,500 entered the lottery for tickets to the annual celebration and education experience and 150 were selected.  Read more here.

The 15-acre Kellettville Firefly Farm near Tionesta, home of the Festival, is dedicated to the preservation of firefly habitat and surrounded by private and public forest.

The PAFF has been monitoring and keeping data on firefly activity in this area for eleven years.

The Farm offers year-round lodging options and firefly experiences at other times, not just during the Festival.

Click Here to read the entire newsletter [PDF copy].  Click Here to sign up for your own copy.

Learn more about firefly conservation, creating a firefly-friendly yard, current research and much more at the PA Firefly Festival website and visit them on Facebook.

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[Posted: September 11, 2024]

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