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Lightning Bug or Firefly (1 Viewer)

Lightning Bug or Firefly?

  • Lightning Bug

    Votes: 198 75.3%

  • Firefly

    Votes: 65 24.7%
  • Total voters
    263
When we were little, we'd catch all the fireflies we could when visiting our grandparents in Ohio. We'd put them in a jar because they were just too magical to not. But we'd get in trouble for letting them go in the house.

 
My boys (2 and 3)love catching lightning bugs, just as I did when I was a kid. The bugs are slow but not too slow so it’s a bit of a challenge but not hard by any means to catch them. Echoing what a poster said above, I too graduated from catching them to batting the living crap out of them. Looking back I feel bad about that and I hope my kids don’t end up doing the same. Hopefully, I can show them the proper light...pun fully intended. I couldn’t imagine a summer without lightning bugs - would be weird. Feel bad for the California folks - didn't know they don't exist out there.

 
'NajehHejan said:
My boys (2 and 3)love catching lightning bugs, just as I did when I was a kid. The bugs are slow but not too slow so it’s a bit of a challenge but not hard by any means to catch them. Echoing what a poster said above, I too graduated from catching them to batting the living crap out of them. Looking back I feel bad about that and I hope my kids don’t end up doing the same. Hopefully, I can show them the proper light...pun fully intended. I couldn’t imagine a summer without lightning bugs - would be weird. Feel bad for the California folks - didn't know they don't exist out there.
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I was going to bring up the fun I had with a wiffle ball bat. I've thought about showing my kids, cause I have no shame. :)
 
Maybe it's because of all the rain, but this is a spectacularly good summer for lightning bugs and fireflies in Columbus. :thumbup:

 
Was going to start this exact thread and poll a couple weeks ago. I didn't remember it, but I guess I voted. 2011 was a long time and many beers ago. :)

Lightning Bugs - Nebraska.

 
Seems like the deep south, Appalachia, and Nebraska are all on the same page with "lightning bug."

That's as good a reason as any to go the other way.

 
Chicago, lightning bug.

Although I'm positive I heard firefly growing up because I have a very clear image of adults talking about catching then.

 
Pretty much as soon as you're using the word "bug," you're in the hillbilly lexicon. Right there alongside "critter" and "varmint" from an animal nomenclature sophistication standpoint.

 
Don't remember what we called them as a kid, but Superchunk's cover of 100,000 Fireflies by the Magnetic Fields left me calling them fireflies since then.

 
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