Patty just stepped outside and saw our year’s first lightning bugs–or fireflies, if you prefer. They weren’t flashing their lights in the daytime, of course: what would be the point of that? But we all know they flash them after nightfall, and I find myself looking forward to it this evening.
National Geographic says they flash to find each other so they can mate. Yeah, well, whatever. We just like it. How many times, in my childhood, did Daddy collect a few lightning bugs in a jar so we could have them in our room at night?
God’s stuff works. So very well indeed.
I miss lightning bugs. Haven’t seen any since we moved to Florida, just love bugs that look like lightning bugs without the light.
Wow, that is the first time I have even heard of them in ages. I really loved them when I lived in Missouri as a kid. I did all sorts of things with them. I sure miss seeing them.
Here is another nice song by Carroll Roberson. Dear Lord, We Thank Thee.
We heard that they were declining because people started mowing their lawns too early in the year and destroy the eggs before they’re hatched. My dad put it off a little longer this year and even avoided little patches of weeds here and there and we are being rewarded with a nightly light show in abundance.
We seldom see those little beauties here in the Philippines.
Don’t you have lightning bugs that live in caves?
Not many fireflies or hummingbirds around here yet even though we are having 90* weather. It doesn’t feel like summer for us without these amazing creatures are entertaining us. Dragonflies a pretty cool also.
I’ve never seen a hummingbird.