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peareu irom summer nights. Massive spraying of DDT in the 1960s decimated populations of the tiny birds and “lightnihg bugs.”
After DDT was banned for use in the U.S. in 1973 (we still produce it for shipment to other countries), the little birds made a slow start lit a comeback. Ibday, they are agadi comrtion. The story with the firefly the same. Now Pur days are again, filled With lightning flashes of darting hummingbirds, and summer nightmre started with the pale green fire oFnreflies.
The hummingbird W$ see in the northern Virginia Piedirlont is the Ruby-throated. At slightly over 3 inches from the top of the bill to the end of the tail, this mite is not the smallest of this distinctly^New World
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