I prefer to call them lightning bugs...
Interesting firefly facts.
An article from a favorite former professor of mine on the same...
I don’t like to call them fireflies, though. The name sounds too “poetic” to my ears, mildly pretentious. “Lightning bugs” sounds homey, basic. They are, after all, bugs, a type of beetle. I like them, sure, and I can’t imagine what summer would be like without them. But that doesn’t mean I have to romanticize them.
An article from a favorite former professor of mine on the same...
I don’t like to call them fireflies, though. The name sounds too “poetic” to my ears, mildly pretentious. “Lightning bugs” sounds homey, basic. They are, after all, bugs, a type of beetle. I like them, sure, and I can’t imagine what summer would be like without them. But that doesn’t mean I have to romanticize them.