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kaat1220

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2018, 09:54:06 am »
gaylasue:

I hope that after you watched them light up the jar, that you let them go so they can spread the light around.

Letting them die in a jar is rather cruel. I don't think kids realize this when they put them in jars.

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2018, 09:29:44 pm »
Yes we do but I feel like there were so many more out when I was a child.

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2018, 10:37:06 pm »
I saw my first one of the season last week.  When I was a kid I used to catch them and put them in jars and turn off all the light and watch them light up.

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2018, 10:57:10 pm »
We have them here in Georgia. love to sit and watch them.
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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2018, 09:24:24 pm »
love them

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2018, 06:24:12 am »
We usually do, but I haven't seen any lately, but then again we're not out often at night.  Hopefully we can catch some on the 4th.

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2018, 02:52:40 pm »
yes we do..we have lots  of them,,,my cat chases them,,, :star:

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2018, 02:54:39 pm »
You bet! They come out every summer in Madison, WI (where I currently live).
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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2018, 02:55:23 pm »
I live in South Carolina and I have never seen them here.  I have only seen them once in my life and that was in Arkansas.

I'm in the upstate of South Carolina, we have lots and lots of them.   So fun to look out in the backyard at night and see so many of them twinkling.  It brings back lots of fun memories of catching them and and putting them in jars.   Of course we always let them go before we went in for the night.

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2018, 03:58:11 pm »
We have lightning bugs in Ohio. I sit on the back porch in the evening and watch them. I used to catch them in a jar when I was a kid which was many, many years ago lol

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2018, 04:55:25 pm »
We have 'em here in Georgia. My boxer loves chasing them.
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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #26 on: July 03, 2018, 05:27:53 pm »
That's amazing. I really thought they were everywhere too! We have them all over the place here.

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #27 on: July 03, 2018, 06:04:04 pm »
We have them at our place. Sometimes we sit on the deck in the evening with a glass of wine and enjoy the light show.

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #28 on: July 03, 2018, 06:38:30 pm »
I had one crawl up me :o :o :o :o :o

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Re: Lightning Bugs
« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2018, 03:56:39 am »
Here in Georgia, we have the largest population of lightning Bugs you ever saw. As a child, we kids would get together and catch them in jars with holes in the lid where they could breathe. We would use them as  night lights when we went to bed at night. :)

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