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Tuesday, July 2. 2024

Summer bugs

Some summer bugs I enjoy:


Lightning Bugs -we had hundreds last night.


Dragonflies - stunning fliers plus they eat skeeters.


Cicadas - they are the sound of summer to me. Ours have not emerged yet, usually mid-July.



Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 14:34 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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We have lightning bugs too, but not that many. I suspect that spraying for mosquitos here in town might be the reason.

Cicadas should start singing any time now, I think.

Don't see many dragon flies. Likely to dry here for them.
#1 feeblemind on 2024-07-02 15:09 (Reply)
I love me some lightning bugs! Never saw them as a kid out on the West Coast; my first encounter was in a friend's back yard as as a young man in Omaha. What a thrill!
#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2024-07-02 15:14 (Reply)
Ditto for my wife who lived her life in Southern California and saw them for the first time here in Nebraska. She was like a little kid in her joy and awe of the lightning bugs when she first saw them.
#2.1 feeblemind on 2024-07-02 22:34 (Reply)
Cicadas have come and gone here. We get lightning bugs here but haven't seen any dragon flies yet. Chigers and ticks are a real nuisance, but the heat does control them.
#3 indyjonesouthere on 2024-07-02 15:46 (Reply)
I get a squadron of dragon flies hovering over my front yard for 2 weeks every July. Gnats hatching? I don't notice them at any of my neighbors.
#4 Matt on 2024-07-02 17:17 (Reply)
At least you didn't say ticks. Was hiking last week in the Mid Atlantic and as a naive western boy decided against repellent....over course of 1/2 hour I picked up 15 of them on my legs.

Scorpions back home tend to be year-round
#5 Anonymous Mike on 2024-07-03 00:26 (Reply)
I use lavender-scented plug-ins to keep the bad types out of my apartment.

And yes, fireflies are proof of God.
#6 Maniac on 2024-07-03 08:57 (Reply)

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