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I live near Muhlenberg, oddly enough, and I have a lot of fireflies in my yard. edit: Here's some that my daughter captured. Don't worry, we released them! h
by fullstop 4y ago
I live near Muhlenberg, oddly enough, and I have a lot of fireflies in my yard.
edit: Here's some that my daughter captured. Don't worry, we released them! https://i.imgur.com/1ol4d6C.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/1ol4d6C.mp4
- smcl 4y agoI was shocked when I saw them on holiday in Slovakia once. I really thought they were a USA or a jungle thing, had no idea we had them in Europe.
- fullstop 4y agoI worked with a guy from Germany about 20 years ago, before it was as easy find this sort of information online. I asked him if they had fireflies in Germany and he kind of scoffed and told me "Of course we have them over there!" He didn't know, at the time, that they were extremely rare starting somewhere west of the Mississippi river.
- msrenee 4y agoAre you saying they're rare west of the Mississippi or East of it? They were thick in the Midwest until recently.
- fullstop 4y agoSomewhere west of the Mississippi. I had also read "western Kansas" was the point at which they drop off considerably.
- msrenee 4y agoI suppose it's west of the Mississippi, but it's a long ways west. I'd imagine it's around the 100th meridian then. That goes through the middle of Kansas and is where you start to expect to see more western species as you travel west past it and vice versa.