OT:::: lightning bugs/fireflies

[mimitabby]

Do you have these? What do you call them? What state or country do you live in?
Mimi in Seattle(Who hasn't seen one since she was a kid in New Jersey)

[mimitabby]

NO ONE has seen lightning bugs recently?!

[KnottedYet]

Not seen any here in north Seattle.

[divingbiker]

We've got them here in Maryland.

[Bikingmomof3]

Do you have these? What do you call them? What state or country do you live in?
Mimi in Seattle(Who hasn't seen one since she was a kid in New Jersey)

We have lightening bugs everywhere. I have lived in 4 states and have had them in each state I have lived in. Some people refer to them as fireflies. I have called them both depending which state I have lived in. My children used to love to catch them when they were younger.

[oxysback]

NO ONE has seen lightning bugs recently?!

Nope...not here in NW Oregon.

[mimitabby]

Thank you. My son (who has never seen one) went to Connecticut this week and couldn't find any and has been rather disappointed. I still remember their magic. We'd put one of these poor creatures on our finger and fantasize about how to imprison it there; as a ring! (that glowed in the dark)
thank you for your responses. I was afraid there weren't any left!

[im4smiley]

I have seen them in Western Mass! I also remember catching them as a kid and wanting to transform them into a ring.

[Eden]

I miss them - and crickets and cicadas, but mostly the crickets. For some reason we don't have any in the city. I've been thinking about going to the pet store and buying a bunch to release in my yard, just so I can hear them at night again.....

[mary9761]

I'm a big kid all over again every time I see my first Lightning bug of the season. I've always loved them as well. Some fairly new folklore (not sure where it came from) that I recently was told... Did you know that Lightning bugs are FAERIES in street clothes? If they appeared as Faeries to us, the normals would freak out! Of course children and those of us who have never grown up would be just fine, but thought you might get a kick out of that.

[DebW]

I see fireflies occassionally but rarely in Massachusetts. Where I grew up in Missouri they were abundant. As all the midwesterners here have attested.

[DDH]

I see an ocasional one here in Central TX, but not like I remember seeing them when I was a kid. The night use to light up with them. My dad was military so we lived all over. I think my best memory of them was in Kentucky when we lived there, or TN, can't remember which, or maybe it was MO. Shoot I don't know. I just know we don't have them here like I remembered seeing them as a kid.

[Nanci]

I call them fireflies, and had them in Minnesota and Florida. I have TONS of cicadas. I heard this noise the other night, and thought something was wrong with my house (like what I was thinking, I don't know, some mechanical malfunction I guess) but it was just super-loud cicadas.

I sleep with a sound machine. My favorites are frogs and crickets.

[gozlin7]

I saw one in my front yard just a few days ago here in Michigan. Just one though - no friends. I've been seeing fewer and fewer every year (darn pesticides, etc.)

Patty

[ladyfish]

We have them in Virginia. I think the first time I saw one was when I lived in Kansas. I'm from AZ originally, and they don't live there. I don't remember them in Georgia either--although Nanci says they are in FL.