Recently moved to Athens,GA...The fireflies (or lightning bugs) are all over here..we love to sit on our patio at night and just watch them. We remember them as kids growing up in Syracuse, NY, but they semmed to have vanished from there.

FIREFLIES ARE LIGHTING UP IN MASSACHUSETTS.They started around June 12th where I live. The fireflies seem to be going strong .There are alot of them. I live out in the country I'm about a 45 minute drive away from Boston (Greater Boston). We have alot of grassy open spaces and forest area along with lots of bodies of water which makes for alot of humidity. I've seen two types of blinking fireflies, one type flashes green and the other does not flash as much and, is orangish yellow.

We have tons of lightening bugs where I am in Pennsylvainia. I have only seen to so far. One on the widow last night and one two weeks ago.

Just went out on the porch. Still really hot, hazy and humid, a little sliver of a moon and some stars peeking out, but no fireflies yet.

I give it no more than a week though and they will be out in full force.

Sorry had to answer the phone and I posted too soon. As far as not seeing them in the city, we had them on Staten Island when I lived there. It was sort of city. A lot more built up than here, for sure. I definitely would not call it 'the country'.

I am sure that loveitaly wasn't mistaken. Even though they may not be around now. When I was really little and we used to go to the Cattskills, there were these birds at night that would say, "whipperwill". I remember laying on the picnic table in my sleeping bag, all the fireflies out and under the stars watching the Persieds, listening to those birds. But they dissapeared a long time ago. I don't know why.

Good memories.

I went for a walk two nights ago past dusk and almost dark. The treeline around the pasture was lit up with "fireworks" - thousands of fireflies blinking. Couldn't see them against the grass or the sky, but the dark shapes of the trees looked like Christmas lights had been strung. Really was magical.

dsm, I had forgotten. I haven't heard "whipporwill" in years. Nor "Bob WHITE!" Used to hear both calls during my childhood.

I see those little bob whites around here still. My friend had one on her lawn and took a picture of one. Cute little thing. They are like quails, right?

Isn't it funny the stuff that you remember as magical memories. I have never taken my fireflies for granted, that's for sure. We love to sit out and watch them.

Yep, Bob Whites are quail. I've seen them in the mountains (of all places) but not down here in farm country. Strange. Of course, there's plenty of pen raised quail around these parts...but that's another story that most of you probably don't want to know about. But, it's been YEARS since I've heard one call.

I see wild turkeys fairly often and I've never been scared so much as when I flushed a pheasant on a walking trail. What a ruckus they can raise taking wing!

I hope to hear either a whipporwill or Bob WHITE! sometime this summer. Thanks for jogging the old memory bank.

My backyard in Wisconsin lights up like magic in late June. You need to look for a low-lying grassy area on a dewy night. I've seen a few out already this year.

Lots of fireflies in Tennessee. In fact, they actually pay kids to collect and freeze them (about $10 an ounce)!

ey? they're becoming extinct. Why kiss them?

LOL, sorry...I meant kill !!!!

Hi dsm, thanks for your comment. No dear one I am not mistaken. The only time in my life that I saw fireflies was at ClearLake CA. It was the summer of 1947. The first vacation the family had taken as during the war it was impossible due to gas rationing etc. I remember how excited my parents were. However, due to the extreme heat and the sort of run down cabin I don't think it turned out to be their best vacation ever but it sure was a special summer to my younger brother and I.

I and my younger brother were allowed to hang around in front of a small commercial area after it got dark (back when life seemed safer). And there were the fireflies. My Dad appeared with a jar and using an icepick poked holes in the metal lid. And we caught the fireflies. But than my Dad made us release them.

I don't know why the memory stays with me to this day, but it does. It seemed to me, a very young girl, a magical evening. And it was. After that summer we stayed at Lake Tahoe/Donner Lake every summer and I have never seen a firefly since.

Well, yet another reason to come to Georgia, LoveItaly. You can experience another magical firefly night (well, lightnin' bugs, but okay!)

Glad to see you posting again.

Well it's official, this is the first night that I saw them, lighting up the fields on the way home from our best friend's house.

Summertime!

Hi Starsville, I would love to see the Lightening Bugs! And I love your state of Georgia. The time I spent there in April was wonderful. Take care.

Thanks for the memories everyone! Growing up on a farm in Ohio, I loved seeing the lightning bugs above the golden fields of wheat. I wanted to know how come the wheat didn't catch on fire! LOL I'm on Cape Cod now and see a precious few every summer but it's sure not the same.

born and raised in colonial beach virginia, every summer evening was filled with lightning bugs, i can not think of a summer without them, but i moved in 97 to central fl, and never saw any there, which i thought was strange, then last summer the field backing my property became abandoned and the grass grew high, and lightning bugs appeared abundantly, in the warm summers that florida gives us. once again i enjoy the fireflies.

Last night my best friend and I decided after dinner to go out and do some 'championship porch sitting'. we turned off the kitchen light and made our tea and stepped out into the back porch and both gasped. There were more fireflies out there than I have ever seen in my life.

It looked like twinkling christmas lights everywhere. I am wondering why there are so many this year.

At first I was thinking to myself that I was just more aware of them because of this. But she actually said she could not believe how many of them there were out there.

I poked my head out tonight and there are an awful lot. More than I remember in years past.

In the summertime you'll find tons of lightning bugs in the dark country sides of Wisconsin. Lightning bugs happily coexist with their good frinds the cricket. Those two insects will provide you with both soothing sound and dancing light shows. When I was little I would take a empty mason jar, poke holes in the lid and spend the next half hour chasing lightning bugs around the yard. I'd put a dozen or more in the jar and then set it on my night stand staring at my capture until I fell asleep. (unfortunately then all I'd dream of was madly chasing flies). One other good use for lightning bugs was wearing them as jewelry. Carefully tie a thread around their tiny waist and you've got a beautiful pair of earrings or a necklace.

Growing up just outside of Philadelphia we had loads of them - we would catch them in the evenings almost every summer night.

Here in Atlanta, we have many again. my kids haven't seen them yet as it gets dark here so late, but I keep meaning to keep them up to see them.