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Lightning bugs!! (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

these guys are great!

I was also blown away the first time I've seen bioluminescent bacteria on some strip algae...you would pass your finger by them and see the hidden binary encoded alien messages

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tried searching YouTube for "fireflies" to watch them in action. 99.9% of the results are music, podcasts and political channels using the term. Think I saw 2 videos of actual fireflies on the first page of results 😆

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is no one going to point out that it looks like Sauron's eye between the index and middle fingers?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Firefly: a lightning bug

Lightning bug: a firefly

Fire bug: an arsonist

Lightning fly: ??? The electric eel of the dragonfly world?

"Is that bat glowing?"

That's no bat. Run!"

[Electrical crackling sounds]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw a few lightning bugs in my yard last year. My life goal have them consistently in my yard. Good thing this dovetails nicely with my other life goals of getting butterflies, bumblebees and birds in my yards

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make sure not to bag and toss all the leaves in the fall - leave a bunch in a pile in the corner of your yard. Thats where they like to stay at night

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the cool things about living in Ohio for a couple years, didn't exist in Texas where I was raised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also significantly fewer roaches. In my experience they're more common in the south due to the warmer weather

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Tumbler has one of the worst comment layouts...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Cocuyo is the name in Cuba 🥹

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have never seen one and I am very jealous :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I once even visited the US South, but it was the wrong time of year or area.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are actually that bright? Where I live they are very dim and green.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ghibli even made a movie about them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's been more than 20 years since my wife moved to the west cost and she still laments the lack of fireflies. Where-as, whenever I've been out east, I'm caught off guard by them... then I start singing Roxanne.

You don't have to put on the gold light

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