Lightning Bugs

[koolmun]

Has anyone seen any Lightning Bugs? The beginning of June is usually when they are the most prevalent. I have not seen a single bug. Is it Climate Change? The rainy Spring we had? Or is it just my neighborhood?

 

[PrchJrkr]

Has anyone seen any Lightning Bugs? The beginning of June is usually when they are the most prevalent. I have not seen a single bug. Is it Climate Change? The rainy Spring we had? Or is it just my neighborhood?

I've not seen one here in the glorious 7D as of yet, but @SailorGirl has reported seeing them in the lower part of the county for several weeks now. I've fallen into a sunrise to sunset lifestyle lately and haven't seen any so far this year.

 

[buddscreek]

been seeing them here in buddscreek since mid may

 

[RoseRed]

I've seen them in Hollywood for the last 2-3 weeks.

 

[GregV814]

Yup, got em

 

[Bonehead]

I have seen them here too. Near SMC, across the river. Frog's Marsh. I have seen their larva in November they are glow worms.

 

[PrchJrkr]

I have seen them here too. Near SMC, across the river. Frog's Marsh. I have seen their larva in November they are glow worms.

I saw this for the first time about 15 years ago while camping near Cumberland in mid-May and thought I was hallucinating. The damn ground was glowing. I shook it off, grabbed another beer, and headed back to the campfire.

 

[FED_UP]

Heck, where I grew up at they were plenty every year.

 

[my-thyme]

They've been lovely across the tops of the barley field. Now that the grain is combined, they are hanging out in the trees, closer together. Looks like the trees are covered with twinkle lights!

 

[Auntie Biache']

It's weird that this came up today. I haven't seen a lightening bug in a very long time, and one was on my window last night, just hangin' out and going blinky-blink.

 

[wittykitty]

Has anyone seen any Lightning Bugs? The beginning of June is usually when they are the most prevalent. I have not seen a single bug. Is it Climate Change? The rainy Spring we had? Or is it just my neighborhood?

It’s been too rainy, windy or cool on most days at my home, and I hadn’t seen a single firefly until last evening. It was a warm, calm evening and they finally showed up

 

[mdff21]

Plenty in the center area of Calvert.

 

[mitzi]

I've seen a few the past week or so.

 

[glhs837]

Just saw my first one last night here between the SMCM and the Green Door

 

[TPD]

Has anyone seen any Lightning Bugs? The beginning of June is usually when they are the most prevalent. I have not seen a single bug. Is it Climate Change? The rainy Spring we had? Or is it just my neighborhood?

my guess is you haven’t put blinker fluid in your lightning bug feeders yet. Or maybe you are putting black blinker fluid in them instead of green.

 

[RoseRed]

Plenty out again tonight.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

I found out too late, once, that if you don't punch some air holes in the jar lid in which you catch them, to illuminate the tent at night when camping, they die from lack of air. Thank goodness for flashlights.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Been seeing them for a couple weeks near the base.

Thank goodness for fleshlights.

Amen

 

[Louise]

Been seeing them for a couple weeks near the base.


Amen

I like seeing them to let me know they are not going the way of the honeybee, which is a life sustaining insect. God bless the insects and spiders, too.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

I like seeing them to let me know they are not going the way of the honeybee, which is a life sustaining insect. God bless the insects and spiders, too.

Once was a time I nearly burned down the house with my WWll flamethrower when there was this huge nasty looking spider on the downstairs basement wall. If the wall hadn't been cinder block? Anyway .... no more spider.