Why not in the DFW area?

Grew up with them in St. Louis and we lived in the city.

Too far south?

Have grandkids and the neighbors kids that I�m sure would like to chase and catch them like I did growing up.

There were plenty around College Station in the 1980s and 1990s. I think fire ants have gotten the larvae. There are plenty here in Kansas, but no fire ants.

I see very few out here. Noticed a lot in upstate NY on vacation

Had a several in the backyard a few weeks ago.

We still see them up here pretty often. Never saw them as a kid in the Prosper/Celina area much

See them every year.
Maybe not this late in the summer but they're still here.

My backyard looks like a Taylor Swift concert in the spring and early summer months. Hundreds, if not thousands of fire flies light it up every night. When we bought the house 8 years ago, we didn�t have many at all, but I haven�t used insecticides back there (yard slopes down to a spring fed creek that I don�t want to pollute), and my wife kills fire ants by pouring boiling water on their mounds, so the fire flies have made quite the comeback here.

Plenty here in Georgia.

Had a serious flashback to the sixties and seventies over the Fourth of July while in western Pennsylvania. Couldn�t believe all the lighting bugs. Haven�t seen them in Texas since being a kid.

They were everywhere in this area back in the 50s and 60s. I haven't seen one in many years here though.

If fire ants are their enemy then that's a good reason in the Metromess.

We see quite a few out in Alba/Lake Fork area.

Plenty along Denton creek in the bottom. Also Oliver creek and Harriet creek in the low flood plain areas.

See a few almost every night from my back porch in Jacksonville.

I see 1 or 2 every year that is it.

They were thick every year when I was a kid growing up in the Atlanta suburbs, have seen a few around here in the past few years but I know I never saw any from 98 to about 2015. Not sure why, maybe too hot and dry, dunno