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Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: lightning bexit ()
Date: June 30, 2016 01:26AM

I've seen a few here and there, but not like I remember in the past. However, I may be

-thinking nostalgically
-too early in the season
-in the wrong location
-suffering from a massive brainfart

Anyone else?

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: agree with you ()
Date: June 30, 2016 01:30AM

+1

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: Supporter ()
Date: June 30, 2016 02:51AM

They seen to bloom up in 1st week of July. Could be all the rain y'all have had maybe?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/2016 02:51AM by Supporter.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: FrankR. ()
Date: June 30, 2016 02:52AM

+1. Maybe insecticide?

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: xtuLK ()
Date: June 30, 2016 07:28AM

Lots of them in my neighborhood.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: LetsRock ()
Date: June 30, 2016 08:40AM

I saw some on Sunday evening in the woods behind my house in Annandale.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: nature cat ()
Date: June 30, 2016 09:01AM

OP I also agree with what you say! I guess I will keep watch and look harder next week as well, Supporter!
Good day to all and may the lightning bugs be plentiful and please our eyes with the little glows in the night sky! PEACE

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: Huh??? ()
Date: June 30, 2016 09:07AM

Lightning bugs prefer the company of whites. NOVA has far too many brown, savage, illegal mud-people for lightning bugs to tolerate.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: L47Cd ()
Date: June 30, 2016 09:51AM

Not many around this year, saw one or two the other day.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: shads ()
Date: June 30, 2016 11:36AM

They like to congregate in trees. I was walking outside couple nites ago and saw hundreds of them in Burke.

If theres a shortage, its due to construction.

Tear down the trees and they lose their natural habitat!! Disturb the ground and thus kill their larva.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: Every year somebody axes ()
Date: June 30, 2016 01:12PM

Still a little early.

They've started over the last couple of weeks.

There will be more in the next few.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: lots of 'em ()
Date: June 30, 2016 02:12PM

Seen them up and down the bike trail from Vienna to Falls Church.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: only one? ()
Date: June 30, 2016 03:55PM

am I the only one who also remembers seeing red lighting bugs too?

I swear as a kid they were green blue and red.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: Mrfoodie69 ()
Date: June 30, 2016 03:55PM

Huh??? Wrote:
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> Lightning bugs prefer the company of whites. NOVA
> has far too many brown, savage, illegal mud-people
> for lightning bugs to tolerate.


I thought Hispanics eat lightning bugs to help power their brain for the rest of the year which is why you don't see as many since the Hispanic population is exploding.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: lookharder ()
Date: June 30, 2016 04:42PM

I was driving from Winchester to Aldie on Route 50 last Sunday evening around dusk. I would say for about 15 miles the center median and sides of the roads were totally lit up with hundreds of thousands of fireflies. I must have had at least a dozen hit my windshield and leave a phosphorescent glow.

Anyway, I have been seeing them around my house in Fairfax County for a couple of weeks now.

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Re: Lightning bugs - where are they?
Posted by: Supporter ()
Date: June 30, 2016 05:14PM

shads Wrote:
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> They like to congregate in trees. I was walking
> outside couple nites ago and saw hundreds of them
> in Burke.
>
> If theres a shortage, its due to construction.
>
> Tear down the trees and they lose their natural
> habitat!! Disturb the ground and thus kill their
> larva.

There are sti plenty of residential trees They make their habitat. Trust me....50 years in no. Va. And ways end of June into first week in July.

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