Insects Are in Serious Trouble

Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by indescions_2017 on Monday October 23, 2017 @06:01PM (#15537296)

we like to call them "lighting bugs" back here on the east coast ;)

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by ConceptJunkie on Monday October 23, 2017 @06:31PM (#15537473)

We called them "lightning bugs" when I was living in Pennsylvania (as I recall), but since then I've lived in North Carolina and Virginia and now think of them as "fire flies".

Maybe it's a north/south thing, too.

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by js2 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:09AM (#15539146)

I grew up in Miami and what we called lightning bugs were a beetle with a pair of green glowing dots on the head:

https://youtu.be/7MMleTEQoo4

I now live in NC where the bug is called a firefly and it has a single yellow glow near its tail and looks more like a fly.

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by TSiege on Monday October 23, 2017 @06:06PM (#15537327)

I'm from NY. We call them fire flies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by gt_ on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:03AM (#15539566)

And I grew up in NC where we called them lightning bugs. But, I also grew up on the internet.

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