twodoebs

When I was a kid, my neighbors Joyce and Christy and Tim and my sister and I used to chase lightning bugs every evening during the summer. We'd catch 'em and store 'em in jars with holes cut in the lid and play with them all summer long.

And it seemed as if there were tons of them. When you'd drive past a field or a medow at just the right time of night, it would look as if all the flashes were going off in a staduim during kickoff of the Superbowl. It was amazing!

Last year, I remember commenting that it seemed as if there were fewer lightning bugs than there were when we were kids. But they were still there. And I know they were around last year 'cause I took this picture:

Now, granted, some of the lightning bugs in that picture were put in there with Photoshop, but there were tons of 'em!

OK, all this by way of the statement that there are no lightning bugs this year. I mean, we've seen one or two of 'em, but nothing like what I remember from my childhood or what I would expect.

Now, following blogging best-practices, I've been ending many of my posts with questions designed to get readers to comment. For the most part, though, those are just rhetorical questions.

This time, I'm really serious. Can someone please tell me what's happened to all the lightning bugs? It's really upsetting me.

I'm sure if I had just spent the time that I spent writing this post on a little Google research, I would already have my answer. But I didn't; so I don't. And now I need somebody to clue me in.

Surely, we couldn't have ripped all their lights off and made them into rights, right?