As among the few scholars in Taiwan to study fireflies, with over a decade's worth of work, Ho, along with another scholar, Prof. Chen Jen-chiao of the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, are lauded in Taiwan as "Fathers of the fireflies." But due to fireflies 'glow-by-night peculiarity, Ho has to go far from his wife for long periods when he surveys firefly habitats.
身為台灣少數研究螢火蟲的學者之一，十多年來的投入和付出，已使何健鎔與另一位屏東科技大學教授陳仁昭同被尊為台灣「螢火蟲之父」，但由於螢火蟲夜間發光的特性，使得從事棲地調查研究的何健鎔，長期處於「顧得了螢火蟲、就顧不了妻兒」的兩難當中。