Lightening Bugs

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I saw lightening bugs (fire flys) the other day for the first time this year. Those are great bugs. I always loved catching them when I was little and now my kids love it. :smile:

when I was young I used to do the same thing. Put them in a glass jar with some food and water and after a week I would set them free and catch new ones lol. They were so cool in my bedroom at night.

I haven't seen one since I was in Europe in '87. We don't have them here in San Diego.

I remember mine dying over night, how did you get them to live so long?

I put grass and sprayed the sides of the far with water. They always seemed to live that way

dont they make the annoying bug noise? that'd keep me up all night

I don't remember them making any noises.

Oh..id prob shit myself if i woke up and saw some light moving in my room.. i need complete darkness. Do you guys remember that show fact or fiction?? I remember one Fact story was about eyes glowing in the wall.. i was pretty terrified.. hense the darkness:)

I am the same about sleeping, it has to be dark.

I don't think that lightening bugs make noise either.

I have to have complete darkness too. I wouldnt like the idea of having bugs in my room, I'd think they were gonna fly out of the jar and sit on me! lol

they dont make it this far west. Not to utah either. I always thought they were a fictional thing since Id neverseen any, figured it was just in cartoons and the like. Then I saw them when I was back in the midwest during the summer a few years back and again when I was walking around for a year and toured the US on foot.I dont recall seeing any west of about oklahoma, but i may be wrong.

well you deprived westerners.

I may of well been deprived of fire flys, but I got to grow up hiking in 10k + foot mountains, watching mule deer, elk, bison, moose, black bears, badgers, all sorts of shit, and catching small safe snakes and lizards, when I was in the medwest what I saw for snakes was fucking water moccisins, muddy waters and endless toll booths on the roads and fucking dead ass hot air.
Ill take cool mountain air with clear streams and wildlife with in 20 minutes from my house any day over that. I think I got off pretty damned fairly if I had to trade all of that to play with fireflys, Ill take what I had :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I honestly can not look into any direction from most any of the citys here with out seeng huge mountains towering all the way around us. there is no skyline, it all mountains. We have big citys, not by the eastern or western coasts standards, but still large citys, so close together that it runs from brigham city to provo with no boundries between the different citys and that about 120 miles, all nsetled along the wasatch front mountains. the tmeps stay cooler, the buildings are not as tall and the pollution is less then alot of place I saw on foot that year. I did however really like New York.

My friends and I would smoosh them in a puddle at night and watch the puddle glow

Yeah, we used to catch them and rub the glowing part of the bugs all over our arms and faces, so then we glowed too.