>> PRODUCTION SUPPORT FOR "JOURNEY INDIANA" IS PROVIDED BY: >> COMING UP, BRUTE X IS HERE.

LEARN ABOUT OUR NEW NOISY NEIGHBORS.

>> TAKE A BREAK FROM THE BUGS AND GRAB A BEER AT ST. BENEDICTS.

>> AND LEARN ALL ABOUT INDIANA'S OFFICIAL STATE INSECT THE FIREFLY.

>> THAT'S ALL ON THIS EPISODE OF "JOURNEY INDIANA."

♪ >> WELCOME TO "JOURNEY INDIANA," I'M ASHLEY CHILLA.

>> AND I'M BRANDON WENTZ AND WE'RE COMING TO YOU FROM THE HARRISON CENTER LOCATED IN INDIANAPOLIS' OLD NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE HARRISON CENTER USES ARTS AND CULTURE TO TELL THE STORY OF INDY'S URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS.

THROUGHOUT THIS SPRAWLING COMPLEX, YOU WILL FIND GALLERIES, STUDIOS AND PERFORMANCE SPACES AND MUCH MORE.

AND LATER WE WILL MEET AN ARTIST WHO CALLS THE HARRISON CENTER.

FIRST, WE WAITED 17 YEARS AND LOVE 'EM OR HATEM, THEY ARE FINALLY HERE.

PRODUCER JOHN TIMM HAS THE STORY OF BROOD X.

♪ >> BROOD X IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE GREAT NATURAL PHENOMENONS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO WITNESS.

IT'S WHEN THE CICADAS EMERGES FROM THE GROUND AFTER BEING IN THE GROUND FEEDING ON ROOTS FOR 17 YEARS AND THEY ALL COME OUT AT ONCE.

THE ADULTS WHEN THEY EMERGE AFTER THEY HAVE COME UP OUT OF THE GROUND, THEY MATE AND THEN THE FEMALE LAYS HER EGGS IN THE STEMS OF TREES.

♪ THOSE IMMATURE CICADAS THEN MIGRATE DOWN TO THE SOIL.

THEY BURROW INTO THE SOIL AND THEY BEGIN FEEDING ON THE ROOTS AND THEY DO THAT FOR 17 YEARS.

♪ AFTER 17 YEARS, KIND OF ALL AT ONCE, THEY EMERGE AND THEY CRAWL UP AND THEN THEY COME OUT OF THEIR PUPIL SHELL.

AT THAT POINT, THEY ARE ADULTS AGAIN AND THEN THEY MATE.

AND SO THAT'S THE LIFE CYCLE.

IT'S JUST AN AMAZING THING TO WITNESS, AND WE WITNESS IT WITH ALMOST ALL OF OUR SENSES.

WE CAN WATCH THEM.

WE CAN HEAR THEM.

THEY ARE EXTREMELY LOUD.

TOWARDS THE END OF THEIR TIME HERE, WE CAN EVEN SMELL THEM.

FOR SOME OF US DARING FOLKS, WE CAN TASTE THEM.

♪ THE REASON THAT THEY EMERGE ALL AT ONCE, ENTOMOLOGISTS THEORIZE AND I AGREE WITH THEM ON THIS, THEY COME OUT ALL AT ONCE AS A MATTER OF SURVIVAL.

THEY EMERGE ALL AT ONCE TO OVERWHELM THE PREDATION THAT'S GOING TO OCCUR ON THEM.

ALL THE ANIMALS OUT THERE THAT EAT BUGS LOVE IT WHEN THEY COME OUT AND SO -- AND THAT INCLUDES MAMMALS AND BIRDS AND OTHER INSECTS AND SO THERE'S AN EXTREME AMOUNT OF PREDATION, BUT THERE'S SO MANY OF THEM THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO OVERWHELM THAT PREDATION, AND THAT'S HOW THEY SURVIVE, AS A SPECIES.

IT'S AN AMAZING FEAT OF EVOLUTION.

THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT BROODS.

SOME OF THEM COME OUT EVERY 13 YEARS AND SOME OF THEM COME OUT EVERY 17 YEARS.

THERE'S A DIFFERENT GENOUS ALL TOGETHER THAT COMES OUT EVERY YEAR THAT WE HEAR TYPICALLY IN LATE JULY AND AUGUST.

♪ THE CICADAS THAT WE HAVE HERE ARE VERY LOUD!

IT'S LIKE STANDING NEXT TO A RUNNING LAWN MOWER.

I MEAN, RIGHT NEXT TO IT!

AND SO YOU CAN IMAGINE TRYING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION, HAVING A WEDDING CEREMONY, WITH THAT KIND OF NOISE.

♪ THE MALE MAKES THE NOISE.

THE FEMALES DON'T MAKE THE NOISE.

AND THE MALES HAVE THIS STRUCTURE CALLED A TIMBAL WHICH IS ON THEIR UNDERSIDE COMBINED WITH AN AIR SACK AND THEY ARE ABLE TO MAKE THIS NOISE.

YES, THEY ARE VERY LOUD.

AND THEY ARE BIG BUGS, WHICH SCARES PEOPLE, OKAY?

BUT ON THE POSITIVE SIDE, THEY PROVIDE A BOOM TO THE NATURAL WORLD.

THERE'S SO MUCH BIOMASS THAT THAT IS OUT THERE, WHERE ALL THE ANIMALS ARE GETTING THEIR FILL.

AND THAT'S A GREAT THING.

AND NOT TO MENTION, THE BIOMASS IN WHATEVER FORM, WHETHER IT'S THE DEAD INSECT ITSELF, OR AS IT GOES THROUGH ANOTHER ANIMAL, THAT IN ITSELF ACTUALLY HELPS FERTILIZE.

I SEE IT AS AN OVERALL GOOD THING, AND, OF COURSE, FOR, YOU KNOW, BUG PEOPLE LIKE ME, IT'S A GREAT THING.

♪ YOU KNOW, AT FIRST, WE WILL GO HUNTING FOR THEM.

AND THEN WE WON'T NEED TO BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE EVERYWHERE!

IT STARTS OUT AND IT'S -- IT'S RELATIVELY SLOW.

IT TAKES A WEEK OR TWO, YOU KNOW TO REALLY WHERE WE NOTICE A LOT OF THEM.

AND THEN THAT WILL PROBABLY BE AROUND FOR, I WOULD SAY, TWO TO THREE WEEKS, AND THEN IT WILL START WANING OFF.

I WOULD SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LIVING WITH THEM FOR AROUND A MONTH, WHICH I AM VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO AS AN ENJOYABLE MONTH FOR MYSELF.

LOOK ON THE LOWER TRUNKS OF THE TREES, AND YOU WILL SEE THE SHELLS, AND IF YOU GO OUT IN THE -- IN THE NIGHTTIME OR VERY EARLY MORNING, YOU WILL SEE THEM EMERGING FROM THOSE SHELLS.

THEY ARE KIND OF GREENISH AT THAT TIME, UNTIL THEY GET WHAT WE CALL KITENNIZED WHERE THE BLOOD GETS INTO THEIR WINGS AND THAT.

YOU SEE THEM EVERYWHERE.

THE LAST TIME IN 2004, I KNOW THAT MY FAMILY COULD BE TAKING A WALK DOWN THE STREET, AND TWO OR THREE CICADAS AT LEAST, WOULD NIGH AND LAND ON US.

WE DIDN'T HAVE TO GO LOOKING FOR THEM.

SOMEHOW THEY DIDN'T APPRECIATE IT AS MUCH AS I DID, BUT IT WAS FUN.

♪ THEY ARE BASICALLY VERY FRIENDLY.

YOU CAN HANDLE THEM.

ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE ARE SOME RECIPES THAT ARE OUT THERE, WHERE YOU CAN COOK UP CICADAS.

IN THE SPIRITUAL SENSE TO THINK ABOUT THIS HAPPENS EVERY 17 YEARS IN MY LIFE.

SO I WILL GO THROUGH THREE OF THEM, MAYBE FOUR, AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THOSE 17 YEARS?

AND YET HERE THEY ARE AGAIN.

AND IT'S -- TO ME, IT'S JUST A TESTIMONY OF HOW NATURE BASICALLY JUST KEEPS GOING ALONG.

IT WILL BE 17 YEARS BEFORE WE SEE THEM AGAIN.

IT'S JUST THE COOLEST THING.

>> SO WE'RE CURIOUS, WHAT IS THE CICADA SITUATION LIKE IN YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS.

YOU CAN LET US KNOW AT "JOURNEY INDIANA"'S FACEBOOK PAGE.

EARLIER WE CAUGHT ONE ALLISON FORD WHO SETS UP SHOP HERE IN THE HARRISON CENTER.

>> I ALWAYS HAD ART IN MY LIFE.

IT BECAME SOMETHING THAT WHEN I WAS 25, 26, 27, YOU ARE DONE WITH COLLEGE AND YOU ARE WORKING YOUR JOB AND YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, IS IN WHAT I'M GOING TO DO FOREVER?

YOU KNOW?

SO I STARTED LOOKING FOR WAYS TO EXPRESS MY CREATIVITY AND KIND OF HARKEN BACK TO THINGS I HAD REALLY ENJOYED DOING WHEN I WAS YOUNGER.

SO I PICKED UP MY JEWELRY AGAIN.

I WENT AND GOT A PIECE OF WOOD.

AND I SAID I WILL MAKE MY OWN BEADS AND I HAD A DREMEL TOOL AND I STARTED IN MY BASEMENT AND ONCE I DID THAT, I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MATERIAL ITSELF.

AND THEN FROM THIS ON OUT, I REALLY NEVER LOOKED BACK.

I ALWAYS LIKE TO INCORPORATE WOOD IN THINGS THAT I MAKE.

AND IT DOESN'T QUITE FIT IN A PREESTABLISHED FRAMEWORK.

ARE YOU A FINE ARTIST?

ARE YOU A JEWELER?

ARE YOU A SCULPTOR?

YEAH, JUST WEARABLES, I POSE, AT THIS POINT.

-- I SUPPOSE AT THIS POINT AND I LIKE TO THINK OF THE BODY AS A TO DECORATE.

HOW TO EMPHASIZE CHEEK BONE, THE EAR, A HAND, YOU KNOW?

SO THAT'S KIND OF BECOME MY CANVAS, I GUESS, AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO PUT THINGS ON IT.

JANUARY 1st OF 2009, I MOVED INTO THE HARRISON CENTER.

MY ELDEST CHILD WAS 8 MONTHS OLD WHEN I MOVED IN, AND SHE'S 13 NOW.

ALL OF MY KIDS HAVE GROWN UP HERE AND THIS IS LIKE ONE OF THEIR MAJOR COMMUNITIES AND THEY HAVE GROWN UP WITH ART AND THIS MAGICAL BUILDING.

BEING AROUND OTHER CREATIVE PEOPLE CERTAINLY HAS PUSHED ME TO GROW AS TO WHAT I THINK I CAN MAKE, THE SCALE, THE COMPLEXITY.

I MEAN, WHEN I FIRST STARTED WORKING WITH THE WOOD, I WAS JUST MAKING LITTLE SIMPLE COMPONENTS AND NOW THERE'S, YOU KNOW -- I HAVE HUGE, LIKE, WEARABLE SCULPTURE BACK HERE.

SO, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO COLLABORATE.

PEOPLE COME IN AND ASK IF YOU WILL COLLABORATE ON SOMETHING AND JUST BEING PART OF SOMEONE ELSE'S CREATIVE PROCESS AND AESTHETIC PUSHES YOU TO THINK ABOUT YOUR OWN WORK IN A WAY THAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE CONSIDERED BEFORE.

THE STATE MUSEUM REACHED OUT TO ME.

AND IT'S BEEN YEARS AGO, BUT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THINGS FOR THEIR GIFT SHOP THAT COULD BE INDIANA-SPECIFIC.

I HAD THE IDEA TO DO BUGS.

I JUST KEPT UP WITH IT.

AND I DON'T THINK I HAVE EVER DONE A BUG THAT EXISTS OUTSIDE OF INDIANA.

THEY ARE ALL INDIANA BUGS.

I WENT THROUGH AND FOUND MOTHS THAT ARE FOUND IN MARION COUNTY SPECIFICALLY.

AND I CHOSE EIGHT OF THEM, AND MADE THESE GIGANTIC -- EACH WAS A NECKLACE.

ALL VERY LARGE AND WEARABLE PIECE OF ART NECKLACE.

AND THEN MY FRIEND IN IN THE BUILDING MADE ME MOUNTS FOR THEM, KIND OF IN A NATURALIST VEIN.

SO YOU COULD HANG IT ON THE WALL.

IT'S SOMETHING YOU COULD HANG IN YOUR WALL AND YOU COULD ALSO WEAR IT, BUT THE WOOD HE USED WAS SALVAGED FROM THE GALLERY RE-DO IN THIS BUILDING.

SO WHEN THE SHOW WAS IN THIS BILLING, IT WAS LIKE THIS -- BUILDING, IT WAS LIKE THIS HYPERLOCAL.

THAT MOTH COULD HAVE LANDED IN THIS BUILDING.

IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WHILE OF MAKING BUGS.

RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ONE CICADA.

WE WILL SEE HOW MANY MORE I MAKE.

BUT I WANTED TO BE INSPIRED BY THE BROOD X. I LOVE THEIR RED EYES.

I MADE SI CADEIES IN THE CICADAS IN THE PAST.

I WANTED TO WORK WITH SOMETHING A LITTLE SCULPTURAL AND STYLIZED AND THIS IS MORE OF A SCULPTURAL BUG, BUT IT'S THE BIG BROOD X CICADA.

THERE ARE DEFINITELY PEOPLE WHO ARE SQUEAMISH ABOUT BUGS THAT STILL LIKE THE JEWELRY.

IT STILL RESONATES WITH THEM.

I THINK THAT EVEN THOUGH IT'S BUGS, AND YOU DON'T LIKE THEM, YOU CAN STILL APPRECIATE THE ARTISTRY OF THE FORM, BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK BACK THROUGH HUMAN HISTORY AND SEE THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THAT ALL ALONG.

>> YOU CAN SEE MORE OF ALISON'S WORK AT STUDIOAMFDESIGN.COM.

>> UP NEXT, WE'RE HEADED TO A ONE OF A KIND BREWERY IN FERDIMAN, INDIANA.

WE HAVE THE STORY OF ST. BENEDICT'S BREW WORKS.

>> AS BENEDICTAN WOMEN, WE ARE TO SEEK GOD IN COMMUNITY, IN PRAYER, AND IN WORK.

>> THE BENEDICTAN ORDER IS PRAY AND WORK.

WE HAD A PRAY, WORK AND BREW.

♪ >> THE MONASTERY, WE ARE FOUNDED HERE IN 1867.

NOW NUMBER ABOUT 130 SISTERS.

>> IN EUROPE, BECAUSE THEY WANTED THE MONASTERIES TO BE SORT OF SELF-SUFFICIENT, BREWERIES AT THE MONASTERIES WERE JUST AN EVERY DAY FACT OF LIFE.

THE SISTERS OPERATED A GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR DECADES.

IT CLOSED AROUND 2000, 2001.

I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SORT OF A LONG SHOT BUT WE APPROACHED THE SISTERS AND KIND OF PRESENTED OUR PROPOSAL.

>> WE HAD A BUILDING THAT WAS AVAILABLE, THAT WAS NO LONGER BEING USED, AND AFTER SOME CONSIDERATION BY THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, WE DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND LEASE THE BUILDING TO HIP FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING THAT SMALL CRAFT BREWERY.

>> THE REST KIND OF FELL INTO PLACE AND WE OPENED IN OCTOBER OF 2015.

>> IT'S REALLY BEEN A WONDERFUL PARTNERSHIP.

HOSPITALITY IS A MAJOR CHARISM OF BENEDICTAN LIFE.

IN FACT, PILGRIMS AND TRAVELERS WOULD FIND REFUGE IN MONASTERIES WHEN THEY WERE TRAVELING THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND THEY WERE SAFE PLACES TO COME.

AND BENEDICT WOULD TELL HIS FOLLOWERS THAT WE SHOULD RECEIVE EVERY GUEST WHO COMES TO THE MONETARY AS IF WE WERE RECEIVING CHRIST HIMSELF.

>> WE'RE IN THE HOSPITALITY BUSINESS HERE.

PRESENTING OUR BEERS TO FOLKS LOCAL AS WELL AS VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE AREA.

AND IT REALLY GIVES THE SISTERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH FOLKS WHO OTHERWISE WOULD NOT VISIT HERE.

>> THE HOSPITALITY THAT IS OFFERED, THE BREWERY, FITS RIGHT IN WITH OUR WHOLE CALL.

>> WE GETS LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO COME HERE.

THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT BEER THAN THEY DO MONETARIES.

>> THEY THEN USUALLY ASK QUESTIONS.

WHAT ABOUT THE SISTERS?

WHAT ABOUT THE MONASTERY?

WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?

AND SO SOMETIMES THEY END UP COMING UP HERE FOR A TOUR AFTER INITIALLY GOING TO THE BREWERY.

BREWERRING BEER HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH MONASTERIES IN EUROPE, SPECIFICALLY A BRANCH OF BENEDICTANS BUT MAINLY AT THIS POINT IN TIME, MEN MONETARY.

AS FAR AS WE ARE AWARE, THIS IS THE ONLY MONETARY OF WOMEN THAT HAS A BREWERY LOCATED ON ITS GROUNDS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

>> THE NUMBER ONE QUESTION THAT PEOPLE ASK IS IF THE NUNS DO ANY BREWING HERE.

THEY DON'T.

>> THE SISTERS DO NOT MAKE THE BEER.

>> THEY HELP US TASTE.

SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE BUSY, WE'LL GET A SISTER WHO WILL JUST, YOU KNOW, STEP UP BEHIND THE SINK AND START WASHING GLASSWARE.

THEIR PRAYERS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO US.

WE DON'T UNDERVALUE THOSE ARE ANYTHING.

>> WE TRY TO BE PLAYFUL AND RESPECTFUL.

>> OUR BLONDE ALE IS SISTER BETTY ALE.

I THINK THE HAZY I.P.

THAT WE DO, IT'S CALLED THE GOOD HABIT.

>> THE SANCTIMONIOUS STOUT.

THERE'S PIRUS PORTER.

>> AND RAISING LAZARUS.

THAT'S THE GOSPEL OF JESUS RAISING LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD.

I THINK WE PICKED THAT BECAUSE THAT WAS THE GOSPEL READING OF THE WEEKEND, WHEN WE KICKED OFF THE BEER.

WE DON'T PROSELYTIZE, BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO EXPLAIN THE CONNECTIONS TO OUR BEERS.

>> THE PRIMARY FOCUS FOR OUR BREWING HAS BEEN BELGIAN ABBEY STYLES, AND BELGIAN TRIPLES AND QUADS.

>> WE BREW OVER 50 OR 60 BEERS.

SOME ARE STAPLES AND SOME ARE SEASONALS.

>> WE HAVE A GOOD SELECTION.

THE BLONDE ALE AND THE BLUEBERRY.

WE HAVE PIZZA AND PRETZELS AND FRIED CHICKEN.

>> THE GROUNDS OF THE MONASTERY ARE ALWAYS OPEN FOR PEOPLE TO COME TO WALK AROUND, TO ENJOY BEAUTIFUL SCENES EVERY TIME OF THE YEAR.

>> THE ARCHITECTURE HERE AT THE SISTERS IS -- IT'S REALLY -- I MEAN, IT'S STUNNING.

WE ARE CERTAINLY IN LOVE WITH OUR AREA.

FERDINAND IS SUCH A UNIQUE COMMUNITY AND THE PEOPLE ARE JUST EXTREMELY FRIENDLY AND VERY WELCOMING AND SUPPORTIVE OF US.

IT'STO KNOW YOU WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OR THE TRADITION OF THOSE FAMOUS MONETARIES AND BREWERIES, IT'S INSPIRING.

>> YOU CAN GET ALL THE INFORMATION AT STBENEDICTBREWWORKS.COM.

>> AND FINALLY JOHN TIMM HAS THE STORY OF INDIANA'S OFFICIAL STATE INSECT, THE FIREFLY.

♪ >> ON SUMMER NIGHTS, DUSK WAS COMING ON AND AS A LITTLE KID, YOU CAN'T STAY UP TOO LATE.

WE WERE ABLE TO RUN AROUND IN OUR BETTER FEET OUT INOUR BARE FEET AND CATCH LIGHTNING BUGS.

>> MY NAME IS MARK LANE.

I'M AN ENTOMOLOGIST AND I WORK FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY.

THE FIREFLY HAS AN INTERESTING HISTORY IN INDIANA, BECAUSE THE MOST COMMON FIREFLY IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY IS CALLED THE SAZE FIREFLY, NAMED AFTER A GUY NAMED THOMAS SAY.

THOMAS SAY IS FROM INDIANA.

AND HE ACTUALLY BECAME THE FATHER OF AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY.

HE DISCOVERED THIS BUG IN THE MID-1800s.

YOU KNOW, KIND OF MADE IT FAMOUS.

IN THE 1990s.

IN 2018, THE LEGISLATURE DID BASICALLY ADOPT THE FIREFLY AS THE STATE INSECT FOR INDIANA, AND GOVERNOR HOLCOMB PROCLAIMED IT SO.

THE FIREFLY IS A PHENOMENAL INSECT.

I MEAN, OF COURSE AS AN ENTOMOLOGIST, I THINK ALL INSECTS ARE REALLY COOL BUT THE FIREFLY IS ONE OF THE REALLY COOL ONES BECAUSE IT LIGHTS UP.

THAT'S PRETTY COOL.

THEY HAVE LOTS OF DIFFERENT BEHAVIOR THAT HAS TO DO WITH THEIR LUMINESCENCE, AND BASICALLY IT REVOLVES AROUND MATING.

THE PRIMARY REASON THAT THEY LIGHT UP IS TO SEND SIGNALS FOR MATING.

SO AS THE MALE AND IT ATTRACTS THE FEMALE.

THE FIREFLY IS A BEETLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T THINK OF IT AS A BEETLE.

IT HAS SOFTER WINGS BUT IT IS A BEETLE.

THE ADULT HATCHES FROM A PUPAE.

MOST OF US THINK OF THAT AS THE COCOON AND THEY CATCH HATCH OUT AND MATE AND THEN THE FEMALE LAYS THE EGGS.

THOSE TURN INTO LARVAE, WHICH ARE PREDATION, AND THEY HAVE AN IMPORTANT PART IN OUR ECOSYSTEM AS FAR AS BALANCING OUT THE GOOD BUGS AND THE BAD BUGS.

THEY ARE CONSIDERED A GOOD BUG.

THERE'S OVER 2,000 SPECIES OF FIREFLIES AND THEY HAVE DIFFERENT HABITATS.

PRIMARILY THEY LIKE FIELDS, THE WOODS, OR SWAMPY AREAS AND THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE THE MOST OF THEM.

♪ THE REASON THAT MOST SCIENTISTS SAY THAT THE FIREFLY IS HAVING PROBLEMS IS LIKE SO MANY OTHER SPECIES, IT'S LOSING HABITAT.

SO A LOT OF OUR FIELDS WERE PRIME HABITAT IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FIREFLY ARE BEING TURNED INTO AGRICULTURE AND/OR HOUSES OR CITIES.

AND SO BY DOING THAT, IT GETS RID OF HABITAT.

AND LOSS OF HABITAT IS THE BIGGEST REASONS WHY SPECIES GO EXTINCT.

SO MANY OF THE FIREFLIES ARE, WHICH IS OUTSIDE OF CITIES AND IN AGRICULTURAL AREAS WHERE PESTICIDES ARE USED.

SO THE PESTICIDES AND THE LOSS OF HABITAT ARE BIG REASONS, BUT THEY ARE ALSO, YOU KNOW, THE REASONS WHY WE ARE LOSING A LOT OF INSECT SPECIES AND A LOT OF SPECIES.

KIND OF THE PERFECT STORM WHICH WORRIES SO MANY OF US, IS THE LIGHT POLLUTION.

A LOT OF THE INSECTS THAT YOU SEE DURING THE DAY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO IMPACT FROM LIGHT POLLUTION.

BUT INSECTS AT NIGHT, PARTICULARLY THE ONES WHO RELY ON SPECIFIC LIGHTING TO REPRODUCE, IF THERE'S LIGHT POLLUTION, THEN THEY -- YOU KNOW, THAT CAN INTERRUPT THEIR REPRODUCTION.

AND SO WE'RE A LITTLE WORRIED THAT THE THREE OF THESE THINGS ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO CAUSE THE DEMISE OF LIGHTNING BUGS.

♪ A LITTLE CLIMATE CHANGE WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON FIREFLIES.

FIREFLIES, LIKE MOST OTHER INSECTS ARE VERY HABITAT-SPECIFIC, AND SO AS WE CHANGE THE ECOSYSTEM AROUND THE FIREFLY, THAT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT.

WE ARE NOT QUITE SURE WHAT.

IT USUALLY IS NOT A GOOD THING.

♪ ANY TIME YOU LOSE A PART OF THE FOOD WEB AND A PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM, THERE'S GOING TO BE AN IMPACT.

CHANCES ARE, WE WILL HAVE A FEW MORE PESTS THAN WE USED TO, BECAUSE THE FIREFLIES, AS PREDATORS, WOULD GET RID OF A NUMBER OF PESTS THAT ARE OUT, OTHER INSECTS BECAUSE THEY WOULD FEED ON THEM.

SO IF THEY ARE NOT THERE TO FEED ON THEM, THE THINGS WE CONSIDER PESTS CAN GO UNCHECKED AND SO THAT'S AN ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM.

COUNTER EACH OF THE PROBLEMS.

SO USE LESS PESTICIDE.

BE MUCH MORE DISCRIMINANT IN HOW YOU USE PESTICIDE.

PROVIDE HABITAT.

LEAVE SOME AREAS OF YARDS OR PARKS UNMOWED.

MAYBE TRY TO WORK ON POLICIES FOR CITIES TO REDUCE THEIR LIGHT POLLUTION.

KIDS IN GENERAL LOOK AT LIGHTNING BUGS AND IT'S LIKE MAGIC.

AND ANYONE WHO IS WATCHING THIS PROBABLY KNOWS THAT FEELING.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, MOST OF US DON'T LOSE THAT FEELING.

WE JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, LIGHTNING BUGS ARE MAGICAL!

EVERYONE NEEDS A LITTLE MAGIC, AND WE HATE TO LOSE MAGIC.

>> I HAVE HAD SUCH A LOVE OF FIREFLIES SINCE I WAS A KID.

IT WAS MY FAVORITE PASTIME AS A CHILD, RUNNING AROUND AT DUSK WITH MY BALL JAR TRYING TO CATCH INSECTS AND FIREFLIES IN THERE.

IT BRINGS BACK SUCH GREAT MEMORIES.

YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FIREFLY AND THE STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO HELP PROTECT IT, AT FIREFLY.ORG.

>>> AND AS ALWAYS, WE WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO STAY CONNECTED WITH US.

>> JUST HEAD OVER TO JOURNEYINDIANA.ORG, THERE YOU CAN SEE FULL EPISODES, CONNECT WITH US ON FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE AND INSTAGRAM AND SUGGEST STORIES FROM YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS.

>> WE ALSO HAVE A MAP FEATURE THAT ALLOWS TO YOU SEE WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND TO PLAN YOUR OWN INDIANA ADVENTURES.

AND BEFORE WE SAY GOOD-BYE, LET'S SPEND SOME MORE TIME WITH OUR TEMPORARY GUESTS, THE BROOD X CICADAS.

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