Are actually that bright? Where I live they are very dim and green.
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Growing up, they were indigenous where I lived. After I moved away, it was so surreal no not see random lights in the back yard during the summer nights.
You would not believe your eyes
When ten thousand fireflies
You already messed up on the second sentence man, its ten million, not ten thousand
Well, shit
edit: in my defense, |i've never seen a single firefly, so ten thousand would be enough for me not to believe my eyes
It brings me unimaginable sadness to know that my recently born nephew will grow up in such a region, when just a few years ago you could see hundreds of these guys in any given back yard
I hate blankets of grass so much
Leave your leaves in autumn!
I lived most of my life in areas where fireflies were around, but they weren't the bioluminescent type,
The house I moved to about 5 years ago is in the woods and 3 months out of the year these guys buzz around my front yard and I've even helped a few out of the house.
They never fail to bring a smile to my face.
First one of the year is always a treat. Then I remember how many there were as a kid and it makes me sad.
Please, switch to red outdoor lights if possible, and if you can't do that, shade your outdoor lights so that it only illuminates specific areas. Fireflies are affected by light pollution.
Also, don't rake your leaves, or if you do have to take, try to sequester them in an area on your property, (I'm currently using my leaves as "sunkill" for garden and flower beds.) fireflies lay eggs on leaf litter, if you dispose of the leaves, you dispose of the eggs.
I treat my yard as a natural meadow the best I can. I only mow once or twice a year and we're slowly pushing out the grass previously planted. I dislike the look of a traditional boomer suburbia yard. I much prefer the wild look.
We don't rake at all. I prefer to just let things do their thing and I'm also far too lazy to bother raking. We live in an area surrounded by woods.
We have snakes and foxes and hares that come out of the woods from time to time. A ton of birds. It's perfect.
I wish I could let mine go, but there are city ordnances I have to follow. My "yard theory" is to break up the the whole lot with trees, bushes, flower beds, and garden plots, to the point that I can "mow" with just a weedwaker.
We've been living at the same house for about a decade. We have a tiny tiny creek in our back yard with some unmowed area around it. Our yard is chemical free and we have tons of pollinators. We saw single digit numbers of lightning bugs for nearly the time we lived here. Never more than two a night and most nights none showed up.
The past few years we've seen an uptick. Not loads, but they seem to be making a small comeback. At least in our yard.
We don't have any such things here in Darkonia.
OWW! Fucking coffee table!
I grew up in the American southwest and I saw them for the first time last summer. I probably looked crazy to people, a guy in his late 20s taking pictures and videos of bugs along the road to send to my family, but I was genuinely mystified
I thought I was seeing spots on the edge of my vision or something before I realized what they were. I always thought they were constantly emitting light, not twinkling
coming from australia, this is super real… we have such a unique set of animals and plants that it’s all just so normal to us, but then you travel overseas and everything is like what you see on tv and in movies
i’m mid 30s, and last year i saw snow falling for the first time in chicago… snow falling is beautiful, and to most of the world it’s just normal - to australians, it just never happens
Snowfall is probably one of the best sensations in nature. It's just so calming and peaceful.
Seeing how Australians react to kangaroos like they're just slightly more dangerous deer is so jarring
Deer will mostly run the hell away. Roos OTOH, sometimes you gotta punch back.
(For those rare folk who haven't seen that video, he was getting it off his dog.)
To be fair, they mostly are just slightly more dangerous deer
At least deer act like prey animals
Kangaroos would learn their place pretty quick if humans started hunting them with pointy sticks again 😤
i mean, we hunt them with guns now so i’m not sure a pointy stick will change their point of view :p
I hope you get many beautiful snowfalls in your life yet
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