After Ho became chief of the Low Altitude Experimental Station, his administrative work cut into his firefly research time. But no matter how hectic things got, he would still find time to conduct surveys and record data around Taiwan.
接任農委會特有生物研究保育中心低海拔試驗站主任後，繁雜的行政工作，壓縮了何健鎔進行螢火蟲研究的時間，但他在百忙中仍要抽空到台灣各地從事調查與紀錄。