Was reading the Whippoorwills thread and didn't want to cut into that. When I first moved onto this property I was astonished at seeing firefly's again, forgotten all about them really. The first year or two there were hundreds of them in the back yard. Now, not so much. I've been thinking of setting up a ecosystem in the back pasture for them and see if I can't re-establish a growing community of them, for this area. Lots of good info out there and in fact, a guy named Ben Pfeiffer, who does research on these flying lanterns of light, has set up a very informative webpage for Texas firefly's. They really are pretty cool little critters. If you're interested, here's some good reading material.

https://www.firefly.org/

I remember as a kid we would see fireflies everywhere. We still see a quit a few at the ranch down in the river bottom at night but not near like we use to.

I sure do miss these things...haven't seen one in years. Would like to see them again, but they are fragile and many homes including mine spray for mosquitos and other insects which really hurts them.

I was seeing them around the middle to end of March and early April here but haven't noticed them in the last week or two. Never as numerous as we had when I was a kid.

The wife and I went to Eureka Springs for vacation a couple of years ago. We stayed at a cabin just outside town and there were thousands of fireflies at night, so we would sat out on the back porch and watch them. There were plenty of them when I was a kid, but I'm now old and these were the first ones I've seen in a very long time....

One thing I've never seen before that I would like to see someday. Cool pic OP.

mhhh, thought this was about the T.V. Show

They are very cool insects. I’ve been wanting to go to one of the areas they illuminate all at the same time, I guess it’s a really cool sight to see. Nature is beautiful.

fireflies

I see them at my place usually in early summer pretty good. When I was a kid, our place on Lake McQueeny was lit up with hundreds almost every night. Pretty cool insects.

Lightning bugs if we’re being technical…

Same here.....

Yep!

Remember catching them as a kid and putting them in mason jar and punching holes in the lid with bottle opener, natural lantern for about 15 minutes then dead

We used an ice pick to put the holes in the lid of the best made pickle jar..

The jar doubled as a cricket and grasshoper and frogs baitholder for fishing the farm ponds..