In the book ‘Night Magic,’ Leigh Ann Henion writes of encounters with salamanders, bats, glowworms and other life-forms nurtured by darkness.
I feel like I’ve been out all night. In my mind, I’ve been walking the mountains and meadows of the Appalachian region after dark. I’ve encountered spotted salamanders, synchronous and blue ghost fireflies, glowworms and different kinds of moths and bats.
The book moves through spring, summer and fall, each season focusing on a few different life-forms. In the spring, for example, she witnesses spotted salamanders, which live much of their lives in darkness. These black or dark-brown amphibians with cheery, yellow-orange spots spend most of their time below ground. The salamanders briefly emerge during spring nights to breed in ephemeral pools, areas fed by rain that dry out periodically.
Henion encourages readers to tune in to the darkness around them. This may require patience because it can take the eyes several hours to become adapted to low light. And she unpacks the fears people — including herself — can have about darkness and the animals associated with it. Like bats, moths may be unfairly maligned in part for their connection to night, Henion writes. It’s thought that moths orient themselves with help from the constant angle of the moon and are). As a moth enthusiast tells Henion, “in that state of artificial-light disorientation, it feels like a moth’s attacking us,” when instead, the creature doesn’t know where to fly.
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