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Lightning bugs
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I miss them. 😭🥹
In a another life those were everywhere. Now notsomuch
It's the same life, we just ended it
and we can bring it back: stop using pesticides, replace your lawns with native plants, stop driving, and stop buying food from industrial farms.
They're supposed to be native in California but I've never seen one. :(
I've never seen one in those bug museum things (like an aviary for bugs; what are they called?) either.
Back in 99 they used to show up every summer night in the East Coast states.
I heard a story that back in the 80s there were some foreign diamond salesmen that came in around the 4th of July. I forget their nationality, but they had never seen fireflies before. They got invited to a fireworks display, and someone there showed them that when you squish a firefly it leaves a glowing smear.
Anyway they scurry off to look at fireflies for a while, everyone else watches the fireworks. No one really pays them any mind until they come back to the crowded area, and suddenly everyone is noticing that they’ve given themselves glowing war-paint.
I wanna say they were Japanese, but google says there are fireflies in Japan. Maybe they were just real goofy guys. Either way it’s an insane energy to bring to a party and I think about it a lot.
I am fairly certain that they are merely holding the eye of Sauron
where do those critters live anyways? I'm pretty sure I've never seen one...
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Ah I love lightning bugs! My backyard will be beautiful in a few weeks 💛
So are they lighting bugs or lightning bugs? This has to be clarified.
They have a lot of regional names. :)
Fair point.
In Europe we very very rarely have fireflies but to my knowledge they are a slightly more green tint. (The American ones look more yellow to me)
Never saw one IRL
this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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