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In my neck of the woods they're mostly called lightning bugs. Lots of flashing going on out there tonight!
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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Would a Rose by any other name smell as sweet? Same thing.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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We see one occasionally, tons when I was little in east Houston
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When I was a little bugger my dad would catch a bunch of them and bring them into my room in a jar. I'd watch them until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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They only light on the way up.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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They’re Lightning Bugs around here.
The fields around home are just now beginning to sparkle with them. Another few days there’ll be billions of them.
One of the many things I love about living here in the sticks!
At sunset, I set on the deck watching the bunnies play and the fields light up.
7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
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Lightning Bugs.
Lots of them when I was a kid, gradually it seemed we saw less.
Over the last number of years numbers seem better.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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"No good deed shall go unpunished!"
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Kids called em blinky bugs
there is no man more free than he who has nothing left to lose --unknown--
" If it bleeds we can kill it" Conan The Barbarian
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Same thing. I call them what they are... Lampirids (Family: Lampiridae)
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we have the beetle-type lightning bugs.
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Lightning bugs here in the peoples republik of Con-ecticut.
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U.S. government was established to represent citizens, NOT TO RULE OVER THEM.
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There was a website where they'd ask you a bunch of questions like this, and based on your answers, it would pinpoint your place of origin. Firefly vs. Lightning Bug was one of the questions. I took the test. The results pretty well pegged me as being from Cincinnati, but there were some flyers. Cincinnati folks call them fireflies. I call them lightning bugs.
When I looked back on the flyers, each one related to a place where my mother had lived as a child. Grandpa was a traveling engineer and Mom lived in something like 13 cities in 12 years growing up. Lightning bugs, according to the website, would have entered Mom's vocabulary from a stint in Dayton, Ohio at age 8.
Dad grew up here but spoke German until he started school. His term for them was glow worms (Glühwürmchen). When he said it there was a peevishness in his tone, like he knew better, but he wasn't going to give in. You could still see the little kid in him, refusing to say firefly.
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This^^^ and lightnin bread
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Supposedly a few exist here in Idaho but I've never seen one here. It's too dry through most of the high desert states. What you call them depends on where you are. ![[Linked Image from media.wkyc.com]](https://media.wkyc.com/assets/WKYC/images/0fcda3b0-0bda-4cfc-8e81-98971aba972a/0fcda3b0-0bda-4cfc-8e81-98971aba972a_1920x1080.jpg)
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Supposedly a few exist here in Idaho but I've never seen one here. It's too dry through most of the high desert states. What you call them depends on where you are. Figures buncha cous cous hummus eatin fàgs
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Last night they[lightning bugs] were synced up like 6 Dykes sharing an apartment, down in my field.
FJB & FJT
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