STORM2K

i saved one from a spider web.

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Yes, I love them as well. They are just another wonderful part of summer!!

You know how kids mix up thunder and lightning? When we used to go up to Ohio/PA for vacation, my son would go outside our cottage to try and catch "thunderbugs"!

I guess they don't have then down here on the coast. A friend of mine mentioned having them up in Dallas when she was a kid. And I honestly don't remember seeing them during my last few years in KY. I guess in the daily rushes of adult life, I'd almost forgotten all about them.

Now I want to see one!

Lightning bugs are cool!!! I even still have my lightning bug house a neighbor man made me when I was a kid.

GalvestonDuck wrote:I guess they don't have then down here on the coast. A friend of mine mentioned having them up in Dallas when she was a kid. And I honestly don't remember seeing them during my last few years in KY. I guess in the daily rushes of adult life, I'd almost forgotten all about them.

Now I want to see one!

they are cute duck. they are the only bug i let crawl on my hand. i wonder where they go in the daytime?

I haven't seen any since I lived in NY. There used to be swarms of them everywhere and we'd run around trying to catch them, lol.
...Jennifer...

There are a few out in the neighborhood every night here, but nothing like I saw when we lived in Oklahoma... you could count on several flashes per second just in the front yard there. Come to think of it, OK was just a heck of a lot more interesting when it came to animals... snakes, toads, june bugs... all pretty common around the neighborhood during the summer.

There are plenty of them here...I absolutely LOVE them. They are the coolest bugs of all time!

I remember as a kid and chasing after them and then displaying them for a while in a jar w/ small holes made in the lid!

Eric

You should see the tricks they do! Ahhh, the Magic of them.

I used to catch them where I grew up in Rhode Island ... They were all ove the place... But we didnt call them lightening bugs, we called them fire flies.... I had the fire fly house too... I havent seen many down here... maybe 1 or 2 in the country, but nothing like up north!

I used to see them In SW Ga and thought they were cool critters---but havent seen them in years-I miss them

YankeeGirl wrote:I used to catch them where I grew up in Rhode Island ... They were all ove the place... But we didnt call them lightening bugs, we called them fire flies.... I had the fire fly house too... I havent seen many down here... maybe 1 or 2 in the country, but nothing like up north!

That's interesting. They're called fireflies in Barbados too. Did you see the earlier post in this thread about the kid calling them thunderbugs? LOL

I remember when I was a kid, my parents used to take us to Uniontown, Pennsylvania to visit relatives. There were tons of them up there and we used to catch them and put them in jars. We'd keep them for a while but my Dad always made us set them free.

Sometimes we'd see them up North in Clare, but not nearly as many as in Pennsylvania.

Oh those Ligtning bugs. They are so cool. Everyone including myself used to chase them and put them in jars as a kid.

I actually saw one lonesome little flash the other night. I got such a fright because it flashed right in front of my face. That is the first and only time I have seen one here. I love glow worms too! They are ugly little guys, but they fascinated me as a kid.

Yeah... I saw that post about the thunderbugs... How cute.. .When I go up to RI in august I am going to go out and get some in the back yard... It is the ONLY bug I can tollerate on me... I remember they mostly had the yellow greenish ones, but every so often you see one thats orange-ish colored.. we always tried to get those! Maybe I will feel like a kid again, chasing fireflies!

Of course I love them! Such wonderful childhood memories catching them! And I had the house for them too, lol

StormCrazyIowan wrote:Of course I love them! Such wonderful childhood memories catching them! And I had the house for them too, lol

i never had a house for them. i actually go out in the yard at dusk and shoo the birds away so they wont get the lightning bugs. they seem so cute and sweet.