Lightning bugs?

Re: Lightning bugs?

• angieez

  July 2011

  Funny, we were just talking about this! I was saying it sucks that the kids don't get to catch lightning bugs like we did when we were kids back in the midwest. We loved doing that as kids.

  Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml

  Report0 Reply
• Loading the player...
• Seattle_JiLLn

  July 2011

  Yeah I bet we spent 10,000 hours catching lightning bugs in jars!  

  

  Report0 Reply
• Brynnie2010

  July 2011

  I was just talking about them too!  But I'm no help, the only place I saw them was in Indiana.

  Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml

  Report0 Reply
• pinktulips

  July 2011

  No lightning bugs. Sorry.

  

  Report0 Reply
• coribecca

  July 2011

  Nope, no lightning bugs in Eastern WA. I've actually never seen a lightning bug in real life.

  
  

  Report0 Reply
• Seattle_JiLLn

  July 2011

  coribecca:

  Nope, no lightning bugs in Eastern WA. I've actually never seen a lightning bug in real life.

  that's so sad!!!    they are awesome!   I guess this means we'll have to - gasp - visit the ILs in the summer some year.  sigh..... 

  

  Report0 Reply
• MSTie24

  July 2011

  I saw them all the time growing up in CT.  I loved those little moving lights.  Damn, now you've reminded me of one of the only things I miss about living there.

  

  Report0 Reply
• pinktulips

  July 2011

  coribecca:

  Nope, no lightning bugs in Eastern WA. I've actually never seen a lightning bug in real life.

   

  I hadn't either until we moved here to MI. They are pretty cool. 

  

  Report0 Reply
• Asquared member

  July 2011

  I've seen them!! ... when we visited the in laws in Ohio!

   

  Report0 Reply
• theresab

  July 2011

  First time I saw them was in CT when I was in college.

  Growing up I was also always confused when reading about jumping in piles of leaves - the trees out here don't those their leaves.  There were a lot fewer decidious trees near my parents house than even here on the east side of the sound, which is nothing compared to New England.

  

  Report0 Reply
• MrsH_08

  July 2011

  Ha!  I was just talking about them with a friend in Chicago this past week!
  

  Seattle_JiLLn:

  Yeah I bet we spent 10,000 hours catching lightning bugs in jars!  

  Oh, definitely!  Poor bugs trapped in jars, with no holes, and handfuls of grass.  We never knew what they ate so we assumed it was grass.  Either that, or we were even more cruel.  If you step on them and smear it with your shoe, they leave a glowing streak for a few minutes.  Probably best for the bugs that my kids won't have much experience, except for when we're in IL. :-)
  

  
  Photo by J Shelton Photography
  
  
  Married 10/5/08 | 2 yrs of TTC, tests, procedures & a m/c | IVF #2 =James!
  

  Report0 Reply
• Seattle_JiLLn

  July 2011

  MrsH_08:

  Ha!  I was just talking about them with a friend in Chicago this past week!
  

  Seattle_JiLLn:

  Yeah I bet we spent 10,000 hours catching lightning bugs in jars!  

  Oh, definitely!  Poor bugs trapped in jars, with no holes, and handfuls of grass.  We never knew what they ate so we assumed it was grass.  Either that, or we were even more cruel.  If you step on them and smear it with your shoe, they leave a glowing streak for a few minutes.  Probably best for the bugs that my kids won't have much experience, except for when we're in IL. :-)
  

  And we snapped off their glow part and put them on our fingers as "wedding rings".  

  Our lightning bugs ate grass too. 

  

  Report0 Reply
• smilingjb member

  July 2011

  We saw them for the first time camping in Minnesota.  DH was so cute when he asked if they were lightning bugs, he sound like a little kid!  It was an awesome sight!!
  

  

  Report0 Reply