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Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: lightbulbbutt ()
Date: June 30, 2016 07:41PM

Is it too early in the season, or does it just seem like the yards around here were teeming with lightning bugs?

I see one or two in the evening, but not the light shows I remember...

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Good question ()
Date: June 30, 2016 07:49PM

Wow glad you asked, I was just going to start another thread on this. 2 is
Just not enough.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: gsgs ()
Date: June 30, 2016 07:57PM

I seen some.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Pollution ()
Date: June 30, 2016 09:06PM

Less woods and more car pollution have killed off the lighting bugs.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Diddy ()
Date: June 30, 2016 09:47PM

I've lived here since I was kid - noticeably fewer fireflies around. Kinda sad.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: FrankR. ()
Date: June 30, 2016 10:56PM

Someone already had this same thread yesterday. To save you the time, we determined that the lightning bugs all moved out of Fairfax due to liberal tax hikes to support the illegals and tranny policies; the bugs can't afford the area anymore.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Juan Bugman ()
Date: June 30, 2016 10:59PM

FrankR. Wrote:
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> Someone already had this same thread yesterday. To
> save you the time, we determined that the
> lightning bugs all moved out of Fairfax due to
> liberal tax hikes to support the illegals and
> tranny policies; the bugs can't afford the area
> anymore.

Correct answer.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: tons of the flashing thingys ()
Date: June 30, 2016 11:01PM

Was just thinking that there were more this year. I have tons by me.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Locals Only ()
Date: July 01, 2016 01:39AM

tons of the flashing thingys Wrote:
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> Was just thinking that there were more this year.
> I have tons by me.

are you in the outer suburbs? I've noticed around here, Annandale, there have been fewer and fewer over the years. Along with fewer and fewer fields and trees. It seems every time I go somewhere I haven't been in a year or so there's a new office building or new plastic looking apartments or McMansions. I was in Vienna the other day with the girlfriend and decided to go home via Park Ave. and Cedar Ln. so I could show the girlfriend the little "easter house". a small white house painted with pastel trim. What a surprise, Park Ave is now lined with these giant McMansions that all look like they're made of plastic and the easter house is gone.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Dense suburbia ()
Date: July 01, 2016 07:57AM

Diddy Wrote:
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> I've lived here since I was kid - noticeably fewer
> fireflies around. Kinda sad.

They mostly live around marshy and wooded areas. A whole lot of that has been paved over during the last 50 years. Heck, you won't even see mosquitos around more heavily populated areas. Light pollution also disrupts their breeding patterns, and we have a lot of well-lit property around. And when half your neighborhood is spraying their lawns with chemicals, that doesn't help keep them around either.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Burke Brat ()
Date: July 01, 2016 07:59AM

Many residents are having their yards sprayed for the illegal Mosquito and its having a trickle down effect killing all Insects. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150620/PC1207/150629964/1268/commercial-mosquito-control-business-is-growing-but-spraying-could-hurt-good-bugs&source=RSS

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Cth9F ()
Date: July 01, 2016 08:10PM

we have fire flies

they stay lit even when it's raining!

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: FrankR. ()
Date: July 01, 2016 09:55PM

Burke Brat Wrote:
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> Many residents are having their yards sprayed for
> the illegal Mosquito and its having a trickle down
> effect killing all Insects.
> http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150620/PC1
> 207/150629964/1268/commercial-mosquito-control-bus
> iness-is-growing-but-spraying-could-hurt-good-bugs
> &source=RSS


Ah. I was right. We switched to another commonly this year called Bee Kind that is supposed to be better for beneficial insects like bees. I hope it helps not kill lightening bugs as well, but not sure.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: tons of the flashing thingys ()
Date: July 01, 2016 10:09PM

Locals Only Wrote:
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> tons of the flashing thingys Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Was just thinking that there were more this
> year.
> > I have tons by me.
>
> are you in the outer suburbs? I've noticed around
> here, Annandale, there have been fewer and fewer
> over the years. Along with fewer and fewer fields
> and trees. It seems every time I go somewhere I
> haven't been in a year or so there's a new office
> building or new plastic looking apartments or
> McMansions. I was in Vienna the other day with
> the girlfriend and decided to go home via Park
> Ave. and Cedar Ln. so I could show the girlfriend
> the little "easter house". a small white house
> painted with pastel trim. What a surprise, Park
> Ave is now lined with these giant McMansions that
> all look like they're made of plastic and the
> easter house is gone.


I live in McLean - but I do live in a wooded area with a stream in the back yard. I also spray the yard for mosquitos but the lightening bugs are still here like crazy. But like your point - its probably because the area isn't crazy over developed.

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: local... ()
Date: July 02, 2016 11:31PM

Hey y'all, some years there would be thousands in the woods and fields along According creek, blinking like the stars in the night sky, which by the way y'all can also no longer see here. They come and go depending on the weather in the winter and during breeding times... But there sure ain't as many as there used to be 'round here...

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Re: Lightning bugs (lack of)
Posted by: Magical ()
Date: July 03, 2016 12:24PM

We have thousands of them in the pines behind our home - look like 70 foot Christmas trees. Magical.

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