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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure I'm literally among the last few people alive who have seen live fireflies in our own country. That was some 40 years ago and I still miss them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fireflies are especially susceptible to pesticides (which includes herbicides). When I moved here 18 years ago, I'd see one or two occasionally, zero now. Read an article about them disappearing worldwide, over 10 years ago.

We didn't have them when I was a kid in OK, but when I'd visit my great grandparents in Indianapolis, you could snatch as many as you liked out of the air, and that was smack in the middle of the city.

Fire ants and houseflies are thriving though!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Growing up (90s), in the middle of a dense suburban/semi-urban area, my mom would melt holes into the top of peanut butter jars with an awl, and we’d put some grass and shit in them and fill them with dozens of fireflies to make fairy lanterns. She would let them out when we fell asleep and said the fairies only stay until dawn, which I was never up for.

I saw a firefly the other day and was absolutely thrilled. It’s been so so long since I’ve seen them. Then again it was during the day so it might have been something else..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I actually saw firefly last summer and the year before flying around my neighborhood. I will say though, that I saw way less of the last year than the year before. It's made me wonder if I'll even see them at all this summer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I miss fireflies so much