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I just moved from California to Tennessee and only recently got to experience fireflies for the first time in my life. They're incredible :) I don't see them in

I just moved from California to Tennessee and only recently got to experience fireflies for the first time in my life. They're incredible :) I don't see them in the city, but that doesnt surprise me... there are tons once you leave downtown, though.

indescions_2017 9y ago
we like to call them "lighting bugs" back here on the east coast ;)
- TSiege 9y ago
  I'm from NY. We call them fire flies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - gt_ 9y ago
    And I grew up in NC where we called them lightning bugs. But, I also grew up on the internet.
- ConceptJunkie 9y ago
  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.
  - js2 9y ago
    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 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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jrmg 9y ago
I went to Pennsylvania for the first time in my mid twenties. When I saw fireflies, it affected me in a way writing about it can only hint at. A sense of surprise and wonder that I haven’t experienced since childhood - maybe not even then. I haven’t experienced anything like it again, and I suspect I never will. Intellectually, I knew they were ‘a real thing’, but that in no way prepared me for the reality. Since then, it’s always been reassuring to look back and know that such wonder can still be felt by a grown adult.
- dreamcompiler 9y ago
  We called them "lightning bugs" in rural Texas. We used to have ice cream after dark in the back yard with the parents and grandparents and neighbors, amidst a swarm of moving stars. It seems magical now, as though I'd dreamt it. But back then, it was just a typical Saturday night.

indescions_2017 9y ago

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

TSiege 9y ago
I'm from NY. We call them fire flies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- gt_ 9y ago
  And I grew up in NC where we called them lightning bugs. But, I also grew up on the internet.
ConceptJunkie 9y ago
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.
- js2 9y ago
  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 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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jrmg 9y ago

I went to Pennsylvania for the first time in my mid twenties. When I saw fireflies, it affected me in a way writing about it can only hint at. A sense of surprise and wonder that I haven’t experienced since childhood - maybe not even then. I haven’t experienced anything like it again, and I suspect I never will. Intellectually, I knew they were ‘a real thing’, but that in no way prepared me for the reality. Since then, it’s always been reassuring to look back and know that such wonder can still be felt by a grown adult.

dreamcompiler 9y ago
We called them "lightning bugs" in rural Texas. We used to have ice cream after dark in the back yard with the parents and grandparents and neighbors, amidst a swarm of moving stars. It seems magical now, as though I'd dreamt it. But back then, it was just a typical Saturday night.