I remember when I was a kid growing up in the back in the 1980s they where tons of Fireflies. Last night I was in bed talking to my wife about them. My daughter is 5 years old and I don't thinks she ever saw a fire files. My older children who lives with x did have experience with fireflies. any reason why they gone?

Development.

Give it another month.

Plenty around here. Maybe you just live in a place with too much concrete and light to see as many as you did elsewhere. Or put down things like grub pesticides on the lawn. Or maybe your kid just has been a little young to be outside looking much after dark.

They usually first start coming out in early June. More over the next few weeks. Peak around early July. Then they'll start to taper off as Summer goes on. Also there are are more than one kind so you'll have different groups surge at different times. And the population varies from year to year.

Thus far I'll grant that this doesn't seem to be a big year for them yet. Maybe be a little behind schedule because of the cooler and wetter than normal Spring. I have seen quite a few though over the last few weeks.

There are some in my Centreville area but for sure not like "I remember when I was a kid" (*).

Then again, I just spent an hour on my front porch feeding the various semi-wildlife and saw =one= honeybee - and that's the FIRST honeybee I've seen this year (plenty of carpenter bees, a few bumble bees...ONE honeybee).

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(*) As a kid, of course, the (usually successful) goal was to collect jarS of the lightning bugs; I've only seen, like, 4 so far in my area.

Tons of them in my backyard. They hang around trees and bushes.

Plenty of fireflies in Vienna. Just find some trees or a park after sunset.

Lotta moon crickets, though.

they have been out for a month or so here.

They rise out of my front lawn like stars in the desert. They're still around, just not in Fairfax.

I have plenty of firefly at my house, you can drop your daughter off with me =)

Right about July 4th and a bit later

Look right now just as it gets dark and you should see some.

We always called them lightning bugs

Lots of them here tonight.

If you are using grub control products for your lawn the you will
not have fireflies. That's the price you pay.

They have been banded due to their contribution to global warming.