Just noticed something VERY strange-lightning bugs (fireflies) still going

[karlrschneider]

here in eastern Oklahoma. I don't think I have ever seen them after Sept. 1 and here it is the 17th. Normally they're long gone by the end of August and also there have been far fewer cicadas than usual. The insect world seems to have undergone a 'shift' of sorts, but I don't know exactly how or why...
:eyes:

[Horse with no Name]

1. Funny you mention that

Cause here in Northeast Texas I haven't seen any all summer.
How strange is that?

[Liberal In Texas]

3. We've had them in Dallas. n/t

[karlrschneider]

5. Well that does seem strange...are you around Tyler, Paris or environs?

I'd think they would be prolific in that area...
:eyes:

[Pepperbelly]

2. In Arkansas ... honey bees were scarce this summer & THAT worries me.

No lightning bugs here either that I recall.

[LiberalArkie]

6. I had my yard full of them in June (Perryville area)

They were everywhere.

[Pepperbelly]

19. honey bees or lingning bugs?

Or both?

[Lindsay]

4. Well, your cicadas musta moved

to the foothills in western NC. They've been particularly loud this summer, and still are.

But our fireflies have gone.

[karlrschneider]

7. LOL...maybe they did move! Normally they're like, REAL loud. ;-)

...

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Global warming? In NJ they came early and lasted a looooong time.

[Tess49]

9. They are still here in central Oklahoma, too n/t

[blonndee]

10. I've been watching them tonight, just S of OKC. n/t

[Tess49]

11. Me, too. Where are you? I'm in Norman.

[blonndee]

16. Hi! I live in Moore but I'm a grad student at OU!

It's been beautiful the last couple of nights, and the fireflies always make me feel happier. =)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

12. I haven't seen a lightning bug

in Tallahassee all summer, now that you mention it.

[spacelady]

13. Read "Swan Song" by Robert R. McCammon. n/t

[flyingfysh]

14. global warming?

Perhaps they are affected by the warmer climate.

[newswolf56]

15. Crickets audible in Southwestern Washington...

for the past four years: this for the first time ever, which is incontrovertible proof of global warming. (For most of the four decades I've lived here, Pacific Northwest coastal forests were typically devoid of all insect sounds -- just coyotes, owls, the occasional wolf down from Canada, tree-frogs in the Spring, etc.; you didn't hear bugs -- even nocturnally -- until you got east of the Cascades or south of the Columbia.)

Was also astonished to note fireflies as far north as New York City back in the '80s -- something as far as I know (and I've always paid attention to such things) hitherto confined to the South and the rural Mid West, but now apparently north even beyond the Canadian border.

[bananas]

20. There were fireflies in NY in the 60's

I was a kid then and there were tons of them in NY state.
Where did you get the idea they weren't there until the 80's?

[Kaylee]

17. My exterminator was saying the same thing about bug activity.....

He was at my house yesterday getting those creepy camelback crickets under control. Just out of the blue during our small talk he said he thought the end of the world was coming. I'm sure he was just being facetious. But he did mention that he and his fellow bug guys in Maryland used to be able to mark their calendars as to when a certain pest would appear or disappear. He says everything is out of wack and has been for the past two years. No bug is acting with their usual pattern any more. Seasonal bugs are year round now.

After watching Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I wonder if we are missing a clue ;-)

[populistdriven]

18. FL has not had its large summer swams of Grasshoppers either