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Lightning bugs!! (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I have never heard of that insect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Despite the name and status as a pest (they are literally European scarabs), I feel nostalgic whenever I see one. Farmers ruthlessly fought them, so there hasn't been a swarming event here in at least 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lightning bugs swarm??? That's simultaneously awesome and terrifying, or maybe terrifyingly awesome. Now I want to see a lightning bug swarm even more than an intense meteor storm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Lightning bugs, aka Fireflies, are harmless. Their little butts just emit flashes of light from internal chemical reaction, like a short lived glow stick. If you encounter a field with a bunch of them, it's real pretty.

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