So......a sure sign of summer......FIREFLIES!!!

[copperkid3]

Was walking back home in the dark and looked out on the fields and nearby swamps
and started seeing the telltale flashes of light in the grasses.......occasionally a few
flew up into the sky and illuminated their message of love to those waiting below.
How many others have started seeing lightning bugs already? Seems like this is the
earliest that we've seem them ever......most times we don't start seeing them until
mid-June or later around the mid-Michigan area.

[Ravenlost]

Ours are almost done for the summer here in Mississippi! They peek here about the middle of May and were fantastic this year!

[jassytoo]

Lucky you. I've never ever seen fireflies, except on t.v.

[SFM in KY]

I've seen them the last couple of evenings here. Looks like there is going to be more of them than we've had the last 2 or 3 years.

[charliesbugs]

Just started seeing them in the last week or so..... Last night there were many in the field!!!

[mammabooh]

I saw my first one of the season about three days ago. It always makes me happy!

[Reb]

Here in southern MD we've had their display since May. They almost look like the little twinkle lights at Christmas! Takes me back, Reb

[Ohio dreamer]

May have to trek out tonight and see if they are here, yet. After 3 years without I'm sure the kids would enjoy and evening of enjoying them.

[Jerngen]

We have lots of them here. Love to watch them putting on such a brilliant twinkling light display.
One thing we've noticed about them here over the U.P. ...... they fly so much higher here! They were shining all the up to the tops of our tall oaks and maples the other night.

[didaho]

Oh I miss those critters. Don't have them here in Idaho

[live-oak]

Fire flies are a spring thing here. It was a great year for them this time, but these last couple of nights I've seen maybe two.

[LonelyNorthwind]

That sounds so neat. I've never seen a firefly! Got lots of mosquitoes tho.

[Pamela]

I saw my first two fireflies of the season last night. I was laying in bed looking out the window and there was a flickering out there. Looked again and there was another....I love Fireflies !

[EDDIE BUCK]

Seems to be more "lighting bugs"this year than I have seen before.

[lenii]

fireflys.... http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/...ct/firefly.htm

[CherieOH]

I just started seeing them a few days ago too and thought it was rather early, but then we had a very early spring so maybe that's why. I love to watch them. There's just something magical about them.