April 13, 20187 yr I seent 'em! Tonight! In 78676! Seems early, but this is great. Nothing better than sitting outside on a warm dark night, drinking beer and watching the fireflies.
April 13, 20187 yr Completely agree. Have not seen them yet this year in the Salado area but looking forward to them.
April 13, 20187 yr Time to load up on all those anti-mosquito things - lotion, spray, cintronella, lemongrass, lavender, and lasers.
April 13, 20187 yr Fireflies? Puh-leeze... "lightning bugs." (they come in cycles, we're in an up cycle right now but alas, they'll probably decrease in the next few years)
April 13, 20187 yr Met a girl one summer years ago while camping at Navarro Mills, the lightning bugs were abundant and she was mind blown by them. I don't recall where exactly she was from but she had never seen them before. She said that she'd read of them but kinda thought they were some mythical thing or something people just joked about like snipe hunting.
April 14, 20187 yr It's one of the things I miss living on the Left Coast. Ain't no fireflies out here.
April 14, 20187 yr Author On 4/13/2018 at 7:46 AM, Hate said: Lightning bugs is the preferred nomenclature.
April 15, 20187 yr I'm in Barton Hills / Zilker and the last few years we've had tons of lightning bugs- always awesome to see.
April 15, 20187 yr 5 hours ago, Beau Vine said: So, they call them fireflies where there aren't very many Lightnin' Bugs.
May 4, 20187 yr Author I don't know what happened, but we seriously have more of these little buggers in my yard right now than I've ever seen anywhere in my life. I went outside for a couple of minutes to watch, and had several of them land on me.
May 4, 20187 yr I've seen exactly two (2) lightning bugs here in Brushy Creek (78717) in 23 years. Living in South St. Louis during the mid 1950s we had jillions of them around.
May 4, 20187 yr I saw a bunch in New Braunfels the other night. They don't ever seem to make it here down 46 West only 20 minutes away.
May 8, 20196 yr On 4/14/2018 at 2:44 PM, Beau Vine said: Dammit Beau Vine, I hate being lumped in with ousux on anything!
May 8, 20196 yr With all this rain, there should be as many of these little critters the next two months as men who the Kardashians go through in a week.
May 8, 20196 yr Saw the first ones of the year recently. Yep, kids caught a couple outside last night. With this wet weather, we’re gonna have a jillion, I hope.
May 8, 20196 yr With all this rain, there should be as many of these little critters the next two months as men who the Kardashians go through in a week.Lightning bugs are black?
May 8, 20196 yr Saw one last night just as the thunder & lightning began. Felt like a good omen. Love seeing every night when I let the dog out in the backyard for her last pee.
May 8, 20196 yr The dunes on Surfside Beach were a cloud of lightning bugs last night -- at least for as long as the wind allowed them to fly.
May 8, 20196 yr Hadn't seen any yet, then 30 minutes before the storm hit last night, they were everywhere.
May 10, 20196 yr saw several wednesday night in round rock - 20-30 maybe. have not seen any in years so was an uplifting sight.
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