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Sat with a couple friends, heavily under the influence of mushrooms, and watched fireflies across a newly planted tree farm field.
I’m pretty sure the three of us each took our own universal truth from that night but in that moment I was pretty sure I witnessed the fireflies riding some sort of universal wave, like gravity and they would jump from wave to wave when they blinked.
Anyways. I miss being young.
Or shrooms. Maybe I just miss those…
Shrooms are great, even before the studies came out saying they could treat depression etc for years after taking I knew.
One good day on shrooms and 6 months of better life after
Ha I had a similar experience, mushrooms are great.
During COVID when nobody able to spray for mosquitoes there was a really cool resurgence - even in the suburbs. Came home from a bicycle ride late one evening, and swear every tree had Christmas lights strung up, they were chilling out and just glimmering in every branch.
I pushed the bike home that night and watched the show in the trees, a lovely coda to the day
I can smell this picture.
Do the bugs have a scent? I’ve never lived in an area with them.
When we were kids we’d catch them in jars sometimes and if you smelled the jar after it def had a scent. If the population is dense enough you can just smell it in the air.
None that I’ve noticed
I took my friends to go see trees full of fireflies while camping and doing mushrooms, mind blowing.
Ngl this looks like the minecraft twilight forest barrier
Never seen fire flies in real life I’ve always had to make do with embers from a fire
Same here until I moved to Ohio for a few years, they’re really cool to have around.
there were so many fireflies in nyc yesterday, i was shocked!
That’s how forests fires get started. That and DEI.
Don’t forget the (((space lasers)))
I moved away from a state that has them. They’re so beautiful to watch over a big open field. Like stars that fill the ground to complete the sky.
I got a million hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs!
I’ve always wondered if the hugs were distributed evenly or if there was a hugs georg firefly and the rest were normal ones
I only got 30k :(
Where is the moth poster when we need him
I had an experience like this camping out in the foothills of the Catskills. One of my favorite camping trips.
I remember when Florida had them in large number, not like that but still maybe one every 10 feet or so on the heaviest night I’ve seen. It was pretty. Now I get excited if I see any at all. If I see 3 in the same night I am ecstatic.
I have a lot in my backyard, it’s a treat to see at night. I have been searching online on what plants they like so I could build a firefly refuge and encourage their breeding but I can’t find any info.
maybe this link will help?
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That’s a long exposure, but there really can be that many of them. I was out on a moonless night in upstate New York. An amazing number of stars was visible (I could even see the Milky Way), I was surrounded by fireflies and glowworms, and there were no other sources of light once I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn’t see my own feet, just lights in all directions.
We have this many right now in the swamps.
I used to live out in the country near a nature preserve and can confirm it looks like this.
Now I’m forced to live in the burbs and get excited when I see a single firefly.
stop mowing your lawn and stop raking leaves, and the fireflies ought to come back
I didn’t rake my leaves and now have two, but my neighbors all mow their lawns and get rid of leaves
There used to be at least some fireflies every year where I lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid but now there aren’t.
I have amazing memories as a kid seeing fields that looked like this! I miss it.
Me too. :)
