I live in rural Oklahoma and they are gonna start popping off in my back yard any week now. I love sitting in my yard on a warm summer night watching them come in by the hundreds. I heard they are becoming endangered though idk

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.

Driving at 60mph through giant swarms is like traveling at warp speed.

I miss them. 😭🥹

In a another life those were everywhere. Now notsomuch

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.

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.

So are they lighting bugs or lightning bugs? This has to be clarified.