What did you call them?

[Doc]

It was used both ways in VA but I heard lightning bugs far more when I moved to NC

Yea that's where I am. And only transplants call them fireflies.

In doing this.. I have noticed that over 30's more often call them lightning bugs, and under 30's call them fireflies. So it could be a generational thing too?

[Alexandrea]

Maybe... I think it's more about point of origin? Dad was Canadian, he said Lightning Bug. Mum was from the UK and said Firefly or Glowworm. (I'm almost 50)

Did you know like the bees, they are vanishing?

http://www.firefly.org/

[Renee]

I do think a lot of kids get it from their parents.

[Doc]

[quote="Alexandrea"

Did you know like the bees, they are vanishing?

http://www.firefly.org/[/quote]

I just read that they recommend letting the logs and leaf litter pile up.. No raking this year! Save the Lightening bugs!

[Alexandrea]

I just read that they recommend letting the logs and leaf litter pile up.. No raking this year! Save the Lightening bugs!

Yes!!! <3

[Madison]

>.>

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)

[Aysel]

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.

[Alexandrea]

soft drink/soda pop or just pop

[Emeritus (DELETED 4718)]

I grew up calling them lightning bugs and was totally evil as a child..like Madison said, used to smear them to make other things glow. other thing, always been soda.

[Every]

Lightning bugs for me, my cousin calls them fireflies - he and I are about six years apart and in our twenties.

As for the pop/soda thing, I call it both. Friends up North say soda more often than those in the South, though.