What did you call them?

[Madison]

We always called em lightening bugs. And soda/pop (which I've only started saying since I moved to the North) is Coke where I come from. Orange Coke, Regular Coke ect.

This bugged me soooooo much when I lived in Georgia.

I remember the first time I asked for a soda from the boyfriend at the time..

"Want a pop?"

"Grab me a Coke, please."

"What flavor?"

"What do you mean what flavor?"

"We have orange, grape, regular and white."

"Uhhhhh, are you on drugs? Those aren't Cokes except the regular. I want the regular."

*Gets handed a Pepsi*

"This isn't a Coke."

"Yes it is."

"It's a cola, yes. But it's not a Coke. Coke is Coca-Cola"

[Verity (DELETED 3963)]

I've always called them "fireflies".

[Nishaa]

Same here, Fireflies.

[Odin]

Lightning Bugs - always been lightning bugs along the north Eastern Seaboard from my experience.

[Aria Frost (DELETED 5365)]

sparkly fire bugs

[Cotter (DELETED 6051)]

We call them lightning bugs and fireflies interchangeably where I'm from, I think. At least, you'll say one or the other and no one will give you a weird look.

[Freyja]

NC born and raised. >.>

Always heard Lightning Bugs, almost exclusively.

Never even heard a drink called a 'pop' until I visited KY. Then I moved there a few years and everyone called it that. It drove me insane. x.x;

So glad to be back where people talk normal.

I kid, of course.

[Temperance Avila]

>.>

I'll have to tell the boyfriend's kids to stop smearing them

<.<

(if you smoosh a lightening bug/firefly and smear it....the smear glows. yes, we're horrible people)

As a kid... I did this too >.> 'Look ma! Glowing earrings!!'
The name for them was always interchangeable, and occasionally called flicker bugs too.

[Deirdre (DELETED 5847)]

Don't get them much here, but when I do see them... I call 'em lightning bugs. Mostly because I think it sounds better.