Velociworld

C'mon over to Cheekville , U.S.A. (Shickshinny, Pa.) and sit a spell. We'll drink beer, roast corn, and catch fireflies. We've got mason jars ready to house the ff and we could even make jewelry (rings.. very fashionable). We are loaded with fireflies in the summers.

Did they ever find out how the fireflies generate light without heat???

Sounds like a plan. PA is beautiful, east and west. I'm not sure how the light no heat paradigm works. Lasers? I've been inundated with end-to-end bugs here (love-bugs). THAT is nasty.

Funny, I think of the missing fireflies every year myself. I was hoping they were still around and I was just missing them.

I didn't see any fireflies this summer. Of course the fact that I was going to bed at 8:30 might have had something to do with that.

Lots of fireflies in Northwestern PA, every year. A few years ago out neighbors had a foreign-exchange student from Japan staying with them for the summer. He happened to be over at our house one night, and he saw fireflies for the first time. He was about 12-13 yrs old, and it just blew his mind!!

I've alternately pouted and reminisced about the same thing.

I noticed that there were more this season--well, more BUGS in general, which has sucked.

But it was nice to see those little boogers with their butts lit up.

Due to federal regulatory changes promulgated under the Clinton administration, fireflies have been prohibited in most or all of the so-called "red" states.

We have plenty of fireflies, or lightening bugs (what we called them in St. Louis) here in Kansas.
There are so many you can smell them even in the daytime - they have a very distinct odor. Now that the first hard frost has come, they will be gone until next spring, but we have never lacked for lightening bugs around here. Maybe it's because we are close to the river, don't know.

Please let me know if fireflys die when u take out their lite?? We always did that as kids and now i am showing my grandkids how to to it. If they do die i will never do that again. thanks so much.

I'm no expert but if someone ripped your butt off wouldnt you die?!

go to a little town called benton illinois its usually as lighted up as much as a fair !

Are there any fireflys on the west coast?

A few weeks ago my Grandfather died. I was heartbroken. I went out side that night to escape my two demanding kids and hubby. I needed to cry and grieve. I was sitting on the back porch when I saw a flicker... and then another.. my first fireflies in almost 20 years... Thanks Grampa! I love you too! They were beautiful and amazing. I live South of Dallas. There were only a few but it was enough!

We live in southeast Michigan, just outside of Ann Arbor, and our backyard is like the 4th of July every evening with all the fireflys. Its a woodsy setting with a pond and tall grass in the fields so that probably helps. I took my grandson out the other night to catch some of them; he asked what makes them light up and I had no answer. Anyone know?