I've been so happy to see them in our yard this year. Enough so that I've stopped clearing brush just in case that's why they're here in such numbers. I haven't seen them like this in a decade or more.
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I had wondered why we always seemed to have some fireflies here and it turned out my hatred of raking and leaving the leaves under the bushes helped a lot!
I miss seeing these everywhere in the summer as a kid. Guess I just aged myself lol, but I did see some in the park last night. Nowhere near as many as years ago though.
Lanternfiles, on the other hand... Oh, wait, oh fuck.
The spotty yeety boi is so pretty but it can go fuck itself
The dad then joins his son laying on the floor and crying
I convinced my inlaws to stop bagging or raking their leaves a few years ago, and they're everywhere now. Not as many as if the whole neighborhood has done it, but more than when I met them.
Wikipedia says the species near me (southern Ontario) are of Least Concern for extinction:
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thats okay. we dont need things that dont make capitalists more money.
capitalism will kill us all, starting with the smallest and most defenseless
This is a wild concept to me. I see hundreds if not thousands every night in the summer.
Count your blessing 20ish years is all it took for them to disappear at my parents house.