Sad news for our Fireflies

[morosco]

Sad news for our Fireflies#1

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:45pm

One of Mother Nature's most delightful creations.
Fireflies Disappearing, Researchers Say

[Up In Lost]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#2

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:30pm

I miss fireflies! When I think about it, I hardly see them anymore. That makes me sad.

Well, I'm glad he got away with it.

[DayDreamer]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#2

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:34pm

I never see them in the US. I was in Costa Rica(home) last summer, and it was incredible seeing them at night.

Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

[ahmelie]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#3

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:39pm

I used to mark seeing a firefly as the first sign of summer. Still haven't seen one yet.

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

[sweetestsiren]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#4

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:41pm

I've noticed this, as well! They used to be everywhere where I lived when I was a kid. These days, it's a surprise to see even a few.

[Jane2]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#5

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:46pm

Last summer, I noticed a few down the shore, but nothing like there used to be.

On a side note, a woman who sells flowers today told me that the bee population is dwindling because of the magnetic waves that cell phones emit.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

[billygoatgirl300]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#6

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:51pm

I live near a swamp and I see a few every now and then but not as much as I used to see at night.

The towel waving reminded me of a Per?nist rally. I kept chanting "Evita!" whenever they'd pan to the crowds. - SM2

[DayDreamer]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#7

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:56pm

Well, the bee populations are decreasing in alarming numbers - with unfathomable implications - but I can't imagine it would be due to cell phone magnetic waves.

Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

[bwayaddict]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#8

Posted: 6/2/07 at 12:00am

We still have many fireflys in Michigan. At least there were last year.

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends." - Shirley MacLaine

[mateo]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#9

Posted: 6/2/07 at 12:14am

I've never seen one.

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#10

Posted: 6/2/07 at 12:55am

That is very sad. My cousins who live on the east coast, said they sued to see fireflies all the time, but not any more.

[cturtle]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#11

Posted: 6/2/07 at 9:23am

well, down here we call them LIGHTNING BUGS. we usually see some each (most?) summers, but not for a long period of time. i'll be looking for them especially this year ...

RIP glebby <3

[Elphaba]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#12

Posted: 6/2/07 at 11:46am

and Northern Ohio.....whenever we'd drive from Detroit to Cleveland, I'd scream til they stopped the car to play with them.
Now that I think of it, maybe I was screaming BECAUSE we were going to Cleveland.....

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

[shiksa_goddess]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#13

Posted: 6/2/07 at 11:52am

I've noticed the lack of Fireflies. It saddens me because seeing fireflies always takes me back to being five years old and catching them in glass jars on Summer nights. Sigh.

[erikaamato]

re: Sad news for our Fireflies#14

Posted: 6/2/07 at 12:36pm

Shiksa: Me, too. I'd keep them for a little while, just sort of gazing at the light in the jar, then set them free.

It is very sad. I first started noticing the dwindling firefly population around my house back East in the early 90's...


Updated On: 6/2/07 at 12:36 PM