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One of the more annoying things about living in Florida is that we have closely related animals that are nearly identical, but they don't have glow-butts. (At least not down in the bottom half of the state.)
I'll wait for someone from like Lakeland to say they have them.
I traveled around Central Florida quite a bit as a kid, I've never seen the Midwest style fireflies. I have seen a glowy luminescent bug in Florida though, it was like a glow stick green and had a constant light rather than a flash. Super weird looking.
Driving at 60mph through giant swarms is like traveling at warp speed.
I miss them. 😭🥹
I heard a story that back in the 80s there were some foreign diamond salesmen that came in around the 4th of July. I forget their nationality, but they had never seen fireflies before. They got invited to a fireworks display, and someone there showed them that when you squish a firefly it leaves a glowing smear.
Anyway they scurry off to look at fireflies for a while, everyone else watches the fireworks. No one really pays them any mind until they come back to the crowded area, and suddenly everyone is noticing that they’ve given themselves glowing war-paint.
I wanna say they were Japanese, but google says there are fireflies in Japan. Maybe they were just real goofy guys. Either way it’s an insane energy to bring to a party and I think about it a lot.
They're supposed to be native in California but I've never seen one. :(
I've never seen one in those bug museum things (like an aviary for bugs; what are they called?) either.
In a another life those were everywhere. Now notsomuch
It's the same life, we just ended it
and we can bring it back: stop using pesticides, replace your lawns with native plants, stop driving, and stop buying food from industrial farms.
where do those critters live anyways? I'm pretty sure I've never seen one...
North America. They're going extinct.
that's sad, would love to have them in Europe
But they are in Europe. Though I think I've only seen some once more about two decades ago.
I think they're only east of the Rockies. I didn't see them on the West Coast at all.
They're native to California. Lived here my whole life and have worked up and down the entire state; ain't never seen one.