fireflies | Brinens and Things

something i’m curious about: where are you from, and is it normal to see fireflies in the summer?

Auckland New Zealand and HELL NO

my mom lives in NC and during the summer the treeline behind her house lights up with so many fireflies that it looks like flickering stars in a darker part of the night sky

iwillbeyourhands:

yeah this is my experience, basically a constant lights show in the summer

timefortigers:

ive never seen a firefly in my life

wufflesvetinari:

in suburban michigan you may see a single firefly at night and it will be a Big Deal. if you go to the more wooded areas, you’ll see them flashing on and off regularly (still not that intense though)

ladyyatexel:

Everywhere in Pennsylvania. They’re actually our state insect.

jewishdragon:

California

No

thetransintransgenic:

Some places have fireflies and some places do not and the places that do not are WRONG AND BAD BECAUSE FIREFLIES ARE WONDERFUL AND AMAZING.

Raising a child in a place that does not have Sufficient Fireflies is basically ALMOST AS TERRIBLE as gendering your child, which is very terrible indeed.

(</sarcasm>. Except about the “gendering children is terrible”. And the “fireflies are awesome”. But it’s okay and not abuse if there are no fireflies, I guess. Even though fireflies are awesome.)

sinesalvatorem:

I have seen, like, one firefly (or maybe another luminous flying bug?) every few months in the couple Caribbean countries I’ve lived in. It seems to be completely unrelated to seasons there.

I miss New Jersey’s fireflies. I haven’t seen a firefly since I moved to southern Ontario.

(To be fair, I don’t go out at dusk very often here, so it’s possible there’s some around and they’re just less blatant.)

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tree-whispering:

beep beep

mimibon:

What is that!

nge:

mim its a lighting bug or whatever they light up

mimibon:

WHAAAAAAT THATS SO COOL HOW DOES HE DO THAT! ITS JUST A BUG BUT IT LIGHTS UP

somuchawkwerd:

lol it had never even occurred to my that there were parts of this planet where lightning bugs are not indigenous

miss-freeman:

I AM SO JEALOUS I WANT TINY LITTLE BUG LANTERNS

angelicfallacy:

It’s so weird to read people calling Fireflies, “Lightning Bugs”.

arcanelegacy:

Ah, regional differences in language. Lightning Bugs, fireflies… (Google also tells me that they are sometimes called “Moon Bugs”, “Fire Devils”, or, my new personal favorite, “Golden Sparklers”)

I used to have a lantern-shaped bug cage as a child. Many summer evenings I’d go out and see how many I could catch for my lantern-cage, before letting them all go at the end of the hunt. They’re so easy to catch, you know. They fly slowly, and they don’t try to flee from you.

Damn, I miss fireflies.

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