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roswellric
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What ever happened to....
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7/11/2007 9:08:47 PM
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Lightning Bugs?
I just saw one on my patio and it crashed into a potted plant. Hopefully for a rest.
What's happened to them? They used to be very thick right after the sun went down. We couldn’t catch them all.
In June as children we would get a jar and collect them, put them near our beds at night to glow us to sleep and then release them in the morning. We would put sticks and leaves and such in the jar for them to be at home.
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GoneFishin
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Found the answer
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7/11/2007 9:24:23 PM
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I reread the ordinance banning BIG BOATs from Lake Martin. It is quite clear that the ban also includes within the definition lightning bugs but NOT mosquitos. There is also a section that reads "If legal action is taken to overturn the ban, the level of the lake will be maintained at no more than 1 foot above winter pool to prevent big boats from using said lake." It is so clear when you read between the lines.
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CAT BOAT
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7/12/2007 9:08:58 AM
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During a visit with my Father last night, he ask the very same question.
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Harborcon
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Great minds....
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7/12/2007 9:28:54 AM
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My husband and I usually sit on our back porch every evening and have dinner there. He has been lamenting for months about the absence of lightening bugs. I believe we could count on our fingers and toes the number we have seen in recent years. I, too, recall very fondly a yard full of twinkling, blinking flying bugs from my youth. And the Ball jar with holes poked through the lid with an ice pick. I'm shamed to say that I never provided an ecologically equal environment for my captured bugs. But if they were still alive the next morning, I let 'em go (does that count?)...
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Feb
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7/12/2007 9:34:58 AM
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I was sitting outside on my deck last evening in Virginia. We did have an afternoon Summer shower a few hours earlier.
It was like a beautiful quiet fireworks display of lighting bugs. There must of been thousands of them. As RR mentioned, they did bring back a lot of childhood memories.
Is this what my life is regulated to sitting on the porch and fascinating about lightning bugs?
How Sad?
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they all went to febs house.
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AC KT
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7/12/2007 9:07:41 PM
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Just walked into the yard and saw tons of lightnin' bugs. Maybe they were just dehydrated until now.
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Lakeman
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7/12/2007 10:10:57 PM
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RR I have a very good crop of lightning bugs. Because of the low water, I suppose, we didn't have very many willow flies.
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