..got to see them in Ohio last month. They are so cool! I have been so deprived! I even got to hold one and just look at it for a while. They are like beetles with a lightbulb in their bums.
By the way Cedar Point is awesome especially if you go to the waterpark too.
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When my sister and I were little, we would catch them and put them in an empty mayonaise jar. Once, when my mom told my sister to let them out, she opened the jar in her room and her ceiling twinkled all night...
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I was in PA over the weekend. I always forget how dark it is in the country. And then the windsheild started to glow in one tiny spot... Posts: 226 | Registered: Mar 2005
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I finally got to see them for the first time, a few years back, when I was in Manitoba...it was weird and random to suddenly see spots of light going off and on all over the place
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Fireflies are very common here in New Jersey, and where I grew up in New York. I always took them for granted as an expected part of summer -- like humidity or ice cream.
I didn't realize that they are not ubiquitous everywhere.
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I hope you do. The simple flash of light is a part of childhood, like the crayfish in a creek or the sound of cicada's in the summer evening. Simple things.
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Fireflies are one of the summer things I miss from the midwest. It wasn't until this Fourth of July that I realized that Seattle doesn't have them. My childhood Fourth of July memories all include chasing fireflies (or lightning bugs, as it were) until it got dark enough for the fireworks to start.
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Wow, I really must have had a deprived childhood. Didn't have crayfish in creeks, and I wasn't even sure what a cicada was... found a website and listened to their sound... rather annoying.
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Yeah, I have no idea what a cicada or a crayfish are, either.
My first firefly experience was a week after I moved to Sri Lanka, and one was in our bedroom, mostly hanging on to our mosquito net. It blinked for hours. The second was a couple of weeks ago, and it was stuck in our living room. It's so cool!
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We saw fireflies when we went up to Atoka. Boon and KPC were amazed that I had never seen them before. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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We didn't have fireflies where I grew up (Utah), but did you know that if you douse a scorpion in alcohol and light it on fire, its tail glows purple?
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UofUlawguy you are evil man, Fireflies are beautiful and I miss seeing them. I grew up having them around for most of the summer. Glad you were able to see one.
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