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What did you call them?

Posted: 17 Sep 2014, 19:42
by Doc
Back story.. here where I live, we call them Lightning Bugs. But for people who moved to the area, they prefer fire flies..even though they look nothing like a fly.. and they do look like bugs.

It has turned out to be a very polarizing subject so I thought I would branch it out.. and ask you all.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 17 Sep 2014, 19:49
by Alexandrea
I MISS THEM!!! :((

They don't live over on this side of the Rockies... :(

But it was Fireflies and Lightening bugs both in the area of Michigan I grew up in.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 17 Sep 2014, 23:00
by Madison
The names are interchangeable in southeastern Wisconsin as well.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 17 Sep 2014, 23:03
by Abbadon
We call them both lightning bugs and fireflies in Louisiana.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 18 Sep 2014, 02:46
by Mordechai
both in western NY as well, but i prefer lightning bug

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 18 Sep 2014, 17:38
by Zodiac
Same in Indiana. I told my granddaughter they were Fairy Lights, but bugs and flies are the top 2 choices here.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014, 03:48
by Kira
Call them both Fireflies and Lightening bugs.

Kind of like soda and pop, I've used both.

Can't really say where though, I've moved around so much who knows.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014, 06:21
by Momento
Totally interchangeable here too, i've lived in Northern MN/WI and Nebraska and spent a lot of time in Iowa and Missouri too.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014, 12:26
by Doc
Kira wrote:
Kind of like soda and pop, I've used both.
That will have to be my next one!

We never called it soda or pop.. we called it 'soft drink' - and I have no idea why.

Re: What did you call them?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014, 15:06
by Renee
It was used both ways in VA but I heard lightning bugs far more when I moved to NC