The lightening bugs are all over the woods.

[spotbird]

It is amazing to watch. Are there lightening bugs everywhere?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. We call them fireflies here-are they the same thing?

[Redstone]

3. Same bugs. The difference in names is regional.

Redstone

[hfojvt]

2. I have some in my yard

but not like they were in rural Iowa. I used to walk my dog south of town and they were fantastic. Especially if it was really lightning outside, then they seemed to freak out.
The starry skies were amazing in rural Iowa too. I think that was the most rural place I lived, except in the woods (where the sky was not all that visible).
It annoyed me one 4th of July because everybody was writing and talking about "nature's fireworks" because there were some huge thunderstorms around the 4th. If fireworks are about a light show, rather than a "noise show", then nature does a much better show with both stars and lightning bugs.

[Blue Diadem]

4. My granddaughter and I were out earlier tonight catching some,

she decided she was going to keep the injured one. She told me it's light was partially broken, so she put it in a little bug container she has, put in a pinecone for it to sleep on, gave it some grass to eat and put the little mesh lid on it. Says she'll have a funeral for it tomorrow.

I love to watch them in our far back yard where it's really dark or in the bean fields down the road.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. My cousins lived in Colorado

when I was a kid and they still remember coming to visit us in KS and seeing lightening bugs for the first time. So I guess they don't have them in Colorado.

[villager]

6. not here in Californ-i-yay

but say, we have earthquakes!

[margaritamama]

7. Love those lights

Mother nature's candles.

[BeTheChange]

8. Nope..

I never saw any in Eastern VA, FL or E Texas from Dallas on down to the gulf.

However, they have amazing fireflies just 3 hours north of me in the Quachitas of OK.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

9. We have them here in Illinois.

Funny story, back in the summer of 1991 a friend of ours was visiting from Ireland, her first trip to America and we were sitting out on the front porch one evening. I noticed that Doreen kept moving her head from side to side and it took me a few minutes to realize that she had never seen lightning bugs in her life.

When I asked her what she was doing, she looked at me and said, do you see those lights that keep flicking on and off? Just to take the piss out of her I replied no, but do you want another drink?

Needless to say Doreen said no, that she was going to bed. When I explained to her what she was seeing she didn't believe me. I had to catch one and show her what they were. She was absolutely amazed.

BTW she did have another drink and we still laugh about that night.