Today I learned that not everywhere has lightning bugs

Definitely an wholesome experience for them. I don't know why I'm excited on their behalf.

They've been disappearing in certain areas in the last ~10 years. I used to see them all the time. It's rare I see them now.

🥹 they are so magical. ✨ this should be america's new goal. more lightning bugs please.

Lightning bugs here, and my daughter loves catching em. Can’t wait to get back at it

We have them here too. Not as many as we had back in the day though

@GetOnTap So true! There used to be so many and now there's only a few. Where did they all go?

@washghost1 @GetOnTap I saw something online a while ago that I never noticed. Remember when you would take a long car trip and your car would be just plastered with dead bugs? That doesn't happen anymore and there's no way that it's a good thing

@NovaLGraves @washghost1 Been noticing/talking about that for a few years now.

Had a British friend who said he was on the toilet when he saw them and he thought it was nuclear fall-out. He freaked out. Then his American wife told him what they were and died laughing.

They are going extinct because of us. Our unnatural lights disrupt their mating patterns. Instead of following a mate's light they end up spending their last days on earth hovering around a street light until they die and never end up mating.

No kidding! I thought they were native to most of America 🤔 if she gets that excited from seeing 1 or 2, she would love being in an empty pasture in GA,SC or NC near dusk and watch hundreds or more of them as they light up the night. My kids have always loved catching fireflies each summer

Fireflies are an eastern thing. They don't have them out West.

Light pollution and pesticide use are killing them here in the northeast. Such fond childhood memories of catching them every night, we always let them go before bedtime.

She would have really been amazed if she had seen them lighting up fields in waves by the thousands back in the 70s and 80s.

If people don't stop spraying pesticides and mowing fields nobody will be seeing them

This was me on a work trip. Just a West Coast gal in the south for the first time. People still talk about it. They thought my fascination was hilarious 😂

I’ll never forget when I moved to America for a year the first time I saw them. A beautiful dark night sitting on the porch listening to music and drinking beer, in the middle of nowhere and there were so many of them. So beautiful 😍

tbf, growing up with these as the norm in the summer, I still react this way as an adult...

When I was a child in eastern SD they were thick...we use to catch them and keep them in a jar beside our bed until morning. I haven't seen them since childhood until one night camping in the Black Hills of SD we saw a few. Such wonderful memories.

my backyard sometimes fills with them. I love that time of year

I was so excited the first time I saw these. They aren’t a thing here in Oregon.

She murdered a lightning bug 🤣

Haven’t seen them in YEARS but grew up seeing them often.

I miss them. One of the most magical nights was the 4th of July with my then 4 year old sitting on the lawn of the church next door fire flies everywhere, then fireworks started. It was like a dream. We moved to Arizona right after that and no more fireflies.

Get her a mason jar, let her have fun catching a few

When i was young fields would be filled with millions of them in the evening. Catching them was a summer past time, we would put them in a glass jar with some grass and bring them in for the night then let them go the next day. You don't see it nowadays.

They aren't in the western states. First time I saw them was when I moved to Indiana. I was 30 years old!

My great-grandmother's place in very rural Tennessee had them in countless numbers; was so much fun.

I saw these as a little girl at my grandmother's house in Bethlehem. We were so mesmerised too 😍

I wish Bill Gates was dropping boxes of firefly’s from the sky instead of diseased mosquitoes and ticks. We need a National firefly preservation act. We can’t let them go extinct. Somebody open a firefly rescue organization.😂🥰 Seems silly, but I’m serious.

The ones in Belize are giant beetles that glow. They’re so big they fly like doppy drunk bees and just fly right into your forehead. It’s cool.

I've lived on the west coast most of my life, and I've never seen one. We don't have them here.

I love how excited she is. When we got older there are less “first time in my life” experiences

I quit using chemicals on my yard a decade ago and let native plants and clover take over. I get a ton in my yard every year. My neighbors dont get any. The milkweed in the cracks attracts all kinds of butterflies 😁

I’m 65 and I still get excited when I see fireflies. Every. Single. Time. ❤️

They used to be everywhere in the little pasture I grew up in Alabama. Still in Alabama but not sure my kids have ever seen one. 😢

I was in South Carolina & Georgia for 2 weeks and didn’t see any 😤

Time to watch this movie to celebrate! You going to love it