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Usually around the 4th of July is when I see the most lightning bugs. Last night I saw less than a dozen.
Don't they have to live on this planet, too?
What are they doing to us? Life in a bunker can't be more beautiful than life up here.
Won't killing the Earth kill them too, what, exactly, will be left after they emerge?
I'll never understand their mindset.
the lightning bugs will be okay, fren
I sure hope so.
Although you'll never hear me bemoaning the lack of mosquitoes, especially since I'm a magnet for them, and I'm (hopefully too far north for GatesofHell's Frankenskeeters), the lack of them is still somewhat unnerving.
Pesticides have devastated the lightning bug population in my area. When I was a kid, we would drive down the highway for miles, and -all- the trees and shrubs along the drive were covered with the bugs. So many flashing bugs that it literally looked like blinking Christmas tree lights as far as the eye could see. Now, it's all gone, just an occasional flash here and there, probably less than 3% of what they used to be.
Yup, same here. :(
we have our work cut out for us, but all things are possible with God
They love meadows and tall grass, the less of those we have, the less they can exist. Unwise cultivation is the culprit. Fallow fields every few years is,(please excuse the word) sustainable agriculture, the more we follow biodynamic farming, the less we lose. Yes, people can prove that non organic food is just as nutritious, and it probably is. It is less about the food and more about the soil, the soil should be alive, let it rest and go to meadows, each state in this nation could become regional agriculturally, and then we could base our food needs on actual trade, not mega farms controlling our food sources. We need insects, but we have poisoned them to near extinction. This is not a leftist stance, by the way. Happy Independence Day, wherever you are. We still have meadows and lightening bugs up here in Vermont, but not as many as when I was a kid, my goodness, growing up in residential Queens, NYC, the back yard was full of them, catch them in a jar, let them loose in the morning,catch n release.
😅 Anytime I see that word red flags go up.
Just like where I grew up in NE Ohio. The house I'm in now backs up to woods, the fireflies used to look like a million stars twinkling amongst the trees, not so much anymore :(. When we lived in the city, we'd go for rides in the country to see them. Called it our lightning-bug-run. Sure do miss them!
You have a great 4th, as well. I'm sitting on my patio watching the neighbors shoot off fireworks. So nice not to have to battle traffic, et.al, to see them.