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Lightning bugs. We have lots of em here.
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All I ever heard growing up was lightning bugs
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As a kid we called them lightning bugs. I dont think we have them where I live now.
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Both, but more often, Lightnin’ bugs. Around here they start showing about this time of year.
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They've always been called Lightning Bugs around here, yet our semi-pro baseball team is called the Fireflies. BTW, I always had little water turtles as a kid. They'd eat any bug I threw into their aquarium, except Lightning Bugs. They must taste bad...
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There are over 130 species of the critters. In addition, there are many other light emitting insects that aren't beetles, making over 2000 total species of flashers.
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We started seeing lightning bugs about 4 weeks ago. It's like seeing intermittent flashing icicle lights the last few nights. The June bugs haven't shown up yet, though, and they don't have much time left in this month . . .
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All of the ones I have seen are Lightning Beetles often called bugs. Kind of like a lot of people call June Beetles -June Bugs. The hard shell covered wings are beetles, the soft exposed wings are bugs. Like Box Elder bugs etc! The beetles are in the order Coleoptera, and bugs are in the order Hemiptera . Just going by what I learned in my Entomology classes in 4H about 60+ years ago! I suppose the insect orders have changed due to every insect being equal (woke) 
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Lightning Bugs, used to chase them in the dark and try to catch before the light went out. Mash em in your hand and the guts would glow for a spell. Seem to remember there’s a formula to use for telling the temperature per the amount of blinks a minute.
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I grew up hearing both but lightning bug is the more common term around here. I still see a lot of them around here on warm humid nights.
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I grew up hearing both but lightning bug is the more common term around here. I still see a lot of them around here on warm humid nights. Same. I remember one dark night walk with my daughter. Going home I noticed that I must have stepped on a lightning bug because the remnants of it were easily seen on the sidewalk for about 50 yards. I was amazed.
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Kids called em blinky bugs We called them twinkle bugs.
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Same thing. I call them what they are... Lampirids (Family: Lampiridae) If you are going to go latin on us you might as well spell Lampyridae correctly.
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Lightening bugs.
Fire flies.
Crawdads, Crawdaddies, Crawfish, Crayfish, Mudbugs - all the same.
As kids in east Texas, we called them Lightening Bugs. A few folks called them Fireflies, but everybody knew what was being discussed.
In the summertime, we would catch them and put them in a jar.
The "winner" had the most, but we always turned them loose before going inside.
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