A garden for fireflies

You have to be lucky – and fireflies!

Fireflies in the garden put on the most beautiful, biodegradable light show summer has to offer. Fireflies love flying around Midsummer's Day on mild nights. Their greenish glowing trails dance out of the vegetation, but in June, you have to stay up well past dusk to make sure it's really dark.

With the small firefly, it's the males that emit light signals while flying, while with the large firefly, it's the females that do so while sitting on the ground. So if there's a luminous flight show in your garden, the small firefly is there.

Firefly larvae are predators that feed on small slugs and snails. To ensure their comfort in the garden and for the adults to be able to display themselves as a brilliant light, they need sufficient prey. Therefore, it's best not to overdo it with slug control. Instead of spreading poison over a large area and thus also catching the beetles' prey, it's better to focus on dismembering the large slugs.