Firefly show!

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My wife and I saw this a few years ago--it is truly amazing.
The best place to view tham is at the Elkmont Campground in Tennessee.

The fireflies are synchonized, and there are millions of them! They only live a few weeks, so you need to go around mid-June to see them at their peak.

Plus, you get the fun of testing out some low-power lights!

Bob

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I would love to see that in person! Fireflies are so neat, and seeing huge numbers of them flashing in unison to form a giant wave must be an incredible sight.

I visited a friend's cabin home in the woods one summer evening, and it was the peak of firefly season, but even so, I saw something that I'd never seen before - a virtual sea of fireflies, thousands of them! Some of them would swarm around me at waist level and then slowly rise to a point a couple of feet above my head, flashing all the way, then they'd drop back down and start over again. It was absolutely magical and breathtaking!

I must say I love fireflies! The chemiluminescent reactions that take place in their abdomen are truely fascinating!! Unbelieveable, the power of Nature!

-tom

we have lots of em here very cool to watch

I've never seen a firefly; I grew up in Juneau AK., live in Seattle WA., and have been to several cities in California and Oregon during the summer, but fireflies do not live on the west coast, so I've never seen them. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jpshakehead.gif
I visited Flint, MI back in the mid-1990s, but that was in February. :/

It's a special kind of summer pleasure. I hope you get to see them in action someday.

They fly really slowly so they're very easy to catch. It's fun to watch one blinking away while crawling across your hand.

hey if ya all want ill catch some for ya tomrow but i aint sure how to show em to you.and a course i may be to slow to catch em now lol

When I was little I used to catch them in the back yard and keep them in jars with holes poked into the lids. Nowadays I wouldn't do that to them but I do occasionally catch one on my hand and watch it until it takes off.

Their "takeoff" is interesting. They suddenly start buzzing their wings but they don't take off instantly; they'll sit on your hand for a half-second with their wings going furiously, then they'll suddenly lift off. It's as if they actually have to push off in order to get airborne.

perhaps it is something on are skin that weighs em down phton they sure are neat