Fireflies!

[PHOTOTAKER]

both...

 

[Bastet]

They don't have fireflies in The UK? --- How sad!

They don't have them in Australia, either. :sad:

 

[cardero]

Fireflies! What do you call them?
Rufus

 

[Ðanisty]

We don't have fireflies down here. I remember seeing them at my grandmother's house in Michigan though. Interesting sidenote, the chemical that makes fireflies glow is called Luciferen.

 

[Ðanisty]

We don't have fireflies down here. I remember seeing them at my grandmother's house in Michigan though. Interesting sidenote, the chemical that makes fireflies glow is called Luciferen.

 

[Sunstone]

In the central Illinois town I grew up in, they were called lightening bugs. In the National Geographics I read they were called fireflies. So, I learned to use both words.

I haven't seen any in Colorado since moving here a dozen years ago. But during my last months in Illinois it was a good year for them. One night I saw a soybean field so full of fireflies it rivalled the night sky for magic. I'd never seen anything like it before, and haven't since.

 

[Sunstone]

We don't get any in California, but I see them sometimes when I go to visit my family in Ohio. I always called the lightning bugs because I was told that they're different from fireflies. I guess lightning bugs flicker their light while fireflies keep theirs a solid light.

Stop action photography shows that all species of firefly (or lightening bug) pulse in various combinations of long and short flashes. Each species has its own unique pattern of long and short pulses. Some species may appear to flicker to the human eye while others don't appear to do so.

 

[Comet]

Growing up in the Mid-West, they are fireflies to people who don't know what they are and adults. If talking about catching them in a jar or talking to kids, then they are lightning bugs. Surprisingly, I have even seen them as far as down in New Mexico a time or two...... never up here in the North-West though............

I miss those things!!! Both is my answer for the poll.

 

[kreeden]

Interesting sidenote, the chemical that makes fireflies glow is called Luciferen.

I knew that ...

Don't think that we have them west of the Rockies , but I usually called them Fireflies back east , although many called them Lightning Bugs .

 

[zombieharlot]

Stop action photography shows that all species of firefly (or lightening bug) pulse in various combinations of long and short flashes. Each species has its own unique pattern of long and short pulses. Some species may appear to flicker to the human eye while others don't appear to do so.

Hmm...interesting.

We don't have fireflies down here. I remember seeing them at my grandmother's house in Michigan though. Interesting sidenote, the chemical that makes fireflies glow is called Luciferen.

Hmm...interesting.

 

[eudaimonia]

I'd just be happy for summery weather and sunshine. It's been chilly and rainy here lately.


eudaimonia,

M.

 

[jamaesi]

I was so amazed when I saw fireflies in Brasil.

 

[Booko]

I saw the first (well, the first I've seen) firefly of summer just a little bit ago!

Er., there's no "both"?

We don't get many fireflies around here, as we have so little grass compared to other plant life.

In Michigan, my Mom's back yard is filled with them every night. It's quite a light show.

By some people's definitions of summer, it's been summer here for a couple of months. February is a spring month -- that's when the daffodils come in.

 

[Booko]

I call 'em fireflies and haven't seen one in probably a few years.

In Wisconsin? You should be loaded with them!?!

 

[Booko]

I'd just be happy for summery weather and sunshine. It's been chilly and rainy here lately.

Come here and enjoy 95F weather and 95% humidity. :sarcastic

Right now, with the A/C not working, I'd take Sweden any time...

 

[Buttercup]

I can't call them anything....we don't have them in Oregon. I've only seen them in the Pirates Of The Carribean ride at Disneyland. Can you send me some in a jar?

 

[standing_alone]

In Wisconsin? You should be loaded with them!?!

Yeah, I just haven't seen any. But I don't get out much.

 

[Bastet]

[/color]Er., there's no "both"?

When the poll has square check boxes instead of round ones, it means you can choose more than one answer. That would cover "both".

 

[Hope]

My heartfelt sympathy to those who've been, and are, deprived of what I've always called 'lightning bugs.' Some of my favorite memories from childhood involve catching lightning bugs on warm summer nights, and just standing in a dark yard letting their ethereal flickering flood me with a magical feeling. Unfortunately, their once thriving existence in these parts has seemed to diminish over the last few years. Another very memorable experience I had with lightning bugs was a few years ago, in the Atlas Mountain foothills of Morocco. I was walking up a hill, early evening, along a road lit only by starlight and the glow of millions of huge lightning bugs---the biggest lightning bugs I've ever seen. They were amazing. Their luminescent flickering, combined with a vast star-studded sky---unpolluted by any nearby city---and a deep, deep quiet, lent that evening an intensely magical, unearthly atmospherethat I will never forget.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I saw a lightning bug just a few days ago.

The only reason I can think of as why I call them lighting bugs, when both are used in the area, is I had "Louey (spelling?) the lightning bug" commercials pounded into my head at school.