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re: Wow! I saw my first lightning bug in years!
Posted on 6/7/24 at 7:09 pm to mudshuvl05
Posted on 6/7/24 at 7:09 pm to mudshuvl05
now that is a cool story
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Posted on 6/7/24 at 7:28 pm to SwampyWaters
I saw a big one last night right at dusk in my driveway and about a foot in front of my face. Startled me.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:16 pm to mudshuvl05
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According to some, there are small areas across their entire range outside of the park, state, etc. where they synchronize.
This is true. I've witnessed them myself in some of the state parks in far NE Tennessee and NW North Carolina. It's a very surreal experience to see this for the first time. There is another species of lightning bug that we affectionately call a "blue ghost". They are solitary and their very feint blue flash is visible only out of the corner of your eye. Almost impossible to detect if you are looking directly at it when it flashes.
Posted on 6/8/24 at 6:24 am to BFIV
One of my favorite things since we moved out into the country.
Lightning bugs everywhere, whippoorwills loud and proud, and the bullfrogs singing in the pond.
Lightning bugs everywhere, whippoorwills loud and proud, and the bullfrogs singing in the pond.
Posted on 6/8/24 at 8:35 am to mudshuvl05
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Bad thing was, that little stream was chock full of brookies. Sucked not to go back.
Do you think they were still there after that raging flood?
Posted on 6/8/24 at 2:10 pm to Shexter
When we drove up here to PA last summer it was crazy. Just past the Mason Dixon Line the sides of the interstate looked just like that.
Never seen it before in my life.
It was like they were lighting the road. It was pretty awesome
Never seen it before in my life.
It was like they were lighting the road. It was pretty awesome
This post was edited on 6/9/24 at 7:29 am
Posted on 6/8/24 at 4:35 pm to Che Boludo
Lived in Illinois for a few years in the late 99: and we used to see thousands of em by the corn fields in the evenings. Pretty cool.
This post was edited on 6/8/24 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 6/8/24 at 4:35 pm to SwampyWaters
I saw some for the first time since I was a kid. It was great seeing them in my back yard along the wood line.
Posted on 6/8/24 at 5:39 pm to Farmtiger
We stayed in Maggie Valley, NC a couple of years ago, one night, driving through the mountain pass from Gatlinburg back to MV, we saw these lightnin bugs, it was millions of them and was just an amazing setting. They were on both sides of the road in fields. We stopped and let the kids run through them a bit, one of those memories that we will never forget.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 10:21 am to SwampyWaters
When we were kids in Kenner back in the 1960s we used to catch them and smear them on our hands and arms - you would glow for a few seconds until the bioluminescent film wore out.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 10:56 am to BoogaBear
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One of my favorite things since we moved out into the country.
Lightning bugs everywhere, whippoorwills loud and proud, and the bullfrogs singing in the pond.
Now that's living and one of the reasons I want to retire on a nice piece of land, sort of away from civilization. I'm really surprised one of those environmental groups didn't raise cain about the decline of the lightning bugs due to spraying, but it's nice to see they are flourishing in other areas.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 1:07 pm to SwampyWaters
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Apparently, the pesticides that the bug man sprays when he comes through your neighborhood had pretty much killed them off.
I didn't realize that. I just thought you had to live near a creek. I do, so I see fireflies.
Kind of makes me want to cancel my "mosquito control" service... which achieves a pretty unsatisfying level of "control" anyway.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 2:28 pm to SwampyWaters
Saw them all at the time in WA State
Posted on 6/9/24 at 3:56 pm to Shexter
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fireflies ... typically begin their mating season in late May and end in early June, with peak activity usually occurring in mid-June.
OK, I'm confused. Or more likely the writer was.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 3:59 pm to SwampyWaters
Didn’t know they had dwindled in numbers. There’s hundreds in my back yard every night
Posted on 6/9/24 at 6:17 pm to Griffindawg
They like grass clippings too in addition to the leaves. I mowed one evening last year and kicked up the grass clippings from the previous week. Had a few thousand lightning bugs flying around. Pretty neat. Most that I have seen in Cenla.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 8:01 pm to Porpus
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Kind of makes me want to cancel my "mosquito control" service... which achieves a pretty unsatisfying level of "control" anyway.
The only reason I found about the pesticides hurting the lightning bugs was from a neighbor on mine a few years ago. He was in charge of raising all the plants for the city, and if the city wanted to spray anything, he had to approve it first.
He said the city knew upfront that the pesticide could harm certain bugs, but they figured it was more important to the citizens that they do something about the mosquito problem. I guess I could see that happening because mosquitos down here are just about everywhere.
This post was edited on 6/9/24 at 8:03 pm
Posted on 6/9/24 at 8:06 pm to SwampyWaters
Growing up Baton Rouge proper has a ton of em. Nowhere to be found now
Posted on 6/9/24 at 8:58 pm to Griffindawg
I see them every year about this time in my back yard. Although, this year I have not seen as many as past years.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 9:05 pm to SwampyWaters
I was up in Woodstock, Ga a few weeks back, they were all over!
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