Lightning bug populations appear to have dramatically decreased in recent years. The author reminisces about childhood memories of catching lightning bugs in jars. Habitat loss, pesticide use, and ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! Hopefully, many of you across the valley received some of the much needed rain last Friday. We continue to experience a typical hot and humid summer.
No matter if you call them lightning bugs or fireflies we all remember as a child catching these bugs in our hands, putting them in a jar, or just sitting on the porch on Summer nights watching them ...
It’s an age-old debate that divides families, friends, states and nations: Lightning bugs or fireflies? You chased them as a kid, captured them in your hands. Maybe even put them in jars for an hour ...
INDIANAPOLIS — If, in your catalog of summertime memories, you swear there used to be more lightning bugs than what you’re now seeing from your front porch vantage point, it may not just be the ...
While putting out our recycling bin last Sunday night, I was elated to see the first lightning bugs of the year flashing their love lights to one another. There were only a few, but I excitedly ...
I wrote this column in what seems like another lifetime, when my boys were still babies. Now as a grandmother, I get to revisit a precious childhood and savor it because I know how fleeting it is. I ...