re: Are lightning bugs becoming rare?

We were at a friend's deer camp in Woodville a few minutes ago and they were everywhere. I haven't seen them like that in years.

Here in north Alabama I have noticed a drop since I was a kid but my boys can still catch about 10 or so in a mason jar a nite

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I have a bunch of them in Covington (a mile from the city center)

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do you mean DOWNTOWN you cocksucking limey piece of shite?

Light pollution by our homes, street lights, headlights, etc. screws with their ability to communicate. That and loss of habitat means you won't see many in the populated areas where most of us live. If you get way out away from electric lights and human traffic, you'll still see them.

Read about it at firefly.org. I think the Advocate had an article about this a few years ago.

There does seem to be fewer frick bugs.

Suck oil and gas from the planet, destroy everything in our path to keep us out of a recession or a depression, use every every fricking natural resource on the planet to accomplish this in the fastest timeframe possible, and kill anything that gets in our way of comfort or whatnot. That's what we do as humans and I'm in that number. *

*not a joke

Where oh where did all the fireflies go?
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I never see them in town or in the marsh, but they thrive at my land in South MS, and at deer camp in Arkansas.

Where I live they went away for decades and have only been back during the last couple of years.

Nothing like when I was a kid but they are back.