Growing up, they were indigenous where I lived. After I moved away, it was so surreal no not see random lights in the back yard during the summer nights.
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Firefly: a lightning bug
Lightning bug: a firefly
Fire bug: an arsonist
Lightning fly: ??? The electric eel of the dragonfly world?
"Is that bat glowing?"
That's no bat. Run!"
[Electrical crackling sounds]
Tried searching YouTube for "fireflies" to watch them in action. 99.9% of the results are music, podcasts and political channels using the term. Think I saw 2 videos of actual fireflies on the first page of results 😆
If you have Disney+ then there's a show called A Real Bugs Life and one of the episodes is mostly about fireflies (and atlas moths and staghorn beetles).
I saw a few lightning bugs in my yard last year. My life goal have them consistently in my yard. Good thing this dovetails nicely with my other life goals of getting butterflies, bumblebees and birds in my yards
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Cocuyo is the name in Cuba 🥹
Tumbler has one of the worst comment layouts...
One of the cool things about living in Ohio for a couple years, didn't exist in Texas where I was raised.
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I have never seen one and I am very jealous :(
Yeah. I once even visited the US South, but it was the wrong time of year or area.
Ghibli even made a movie about them
Are actually that bright? Where I live they are very dim and green.