Where have all the fireflies gone?

[katewallace]

When I was a kid, my brother and I would go outside in the summer and catch fireflies and put them in glass jars with holes cut in the lid. After a while, we'd open the jars and let them go, but we almost always caught at least five or six of them apiece. Now when I look out into my backyard at night, I'm lucky if I see one or two fireflies and

Comments

[lumiere42]

Do you live in an area where they spray for mosquitoes? They do that in FL and there were never any fireflies, but they don't here in Appalachia and we have roughly a zillion fireflies...

[katewallace]

I don't think they spray for mosquitoes here...maybe some people do on their own property, but the city certainly doesn't do anything about it. But I'm always excited when I see them flitting around in the back yard. Hope they're not dying out like some of the bee varieties.