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diners’ pleasure had almost disappeared.
Management paid people to trap the insects in rural areas where they were still numerous and deliver them to the city to gleam hi the restaurant’s spacious garden, the National Geographic Society notes.
Funds For Breeding
Then in 1973 one district of the city began providing money for breeding and raising fireflies, so that the insects again would shine in neighborhood parks and streets. The program now costs more than $15,000 a year. Its high point is an annual festival in July when crowds turn out to watch hundreds 3f glimmering fireflies freed 1 from atop a specially-built < tower. 1 Those fleeting beacons that i
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