Lightning Bugs

[pdub]

Unit and I were ganged up around the pool table just now, leaning on it, having a conversation about stuff.

Ken The Cat went into Target Guidance mode in the living room, came by like a Spot Rocket and leaped high onto the mini blinds. After a bug. A lightning bug. I saved it, it's outside.

I haven't seen a lightning bug in many years.



There used to be so many in the South when I was a kid, we'd catch jars full of them just to use as a lantern. I figured we'd driven them to extinction, just catching them and putting them in jars. Seriously, we (all of us kids back then) got millions of them for fun. You don't see them as much now. I think we hurt the population for sure.

[studemax]

Everything's a calamity with you.

[pdub]

Everything's a calamity with you.

Stude, did you not catch lightning bugs? Maybe that's just a Southern thing.

[oletrux4evr]

It's a Kansas thing too....my grandkids are experts, thank you very much...........

[Big Dave]

Yep....filled many a mason jar with them bugs during summer nights.

[SSChevyManiac]

We've got plenty up north here. Just started seeing them for the year.

[studemax]

Stude, did you not catch lightning bugs? Maybe that's just a Southern thing.

Yes, I did - but I did not conclude that "we hurt the population for sure".

Everywhere you turn, Rusty - you see trouble, anguish, pain, suffering, and a world about to end.
You have a SERIOUS problem. Lighten up for gawd's sake, and enjoy life a little.

[Barry Donovan]

Stude, did you not catch lightning bugs? Maybe that's just a Southern thing.

they are missing.

I am certain to be a nomad for a thousand years..but they faded away in southern new England at my locale in the 80s..
found them again if conditions were right in maine, and then again..gone.

the only bug left is this albino see through spider, it likes the hardwoods.

no flies, nothing.

I am ready to wander again. Sickening.
more deaths than births and more trash than humans.

[LORENSWIFE]

PW, I hope you haven't killed them all! Someday I really want to see some!
Shoppin' the K-mart last weekend and they had some solar lights that were supposed to simulate fireflys for for $12. I was very tempted!

[Deaf Bob]

I saw some a few years ago in Iowa, I was sitting in the car waiting for my wife and saw what I thought was lights on running shoes.... Looked for the runner's shape.... Huh? Then the blinking went in circles.. She told me it was lightening bugs ..

[nesabo]

Saw a few a couple nights ago, first time this summer. Probably been out longer but I havent stayed up that late.

[BigBlockMopar]

Lightning bugs...
How do you call these then?

[JOES66FURY]

I do miss watching the lightnin'bugs fly around at night...then again, I miss grass, water, trees and temperatures that allow you to sit outside in the evenings.

I havent seen a lightning bug in close to 17 years....We used to catch them and then as we got older we used to swing at them with a wiffleball bat and make a kind of lighted baseball bat.....

[70chevyC-10]

I saw some a few years ago in Iowa, I was sitting in the car waiting for my wife and saw what I thought was lights on running shoes.... Looked for the runner's shape.... Huh? Then the blinking went in circles.. She told me it was lightening bugs ..

I thought those were flashbacks from the 60's and 70's - maybe not.

[Beagle]

Mom had a Hurst Olds with Lightning Rods. You don't see them very often any more.