[SamAdams76]

Unfortunately the lightning bugs need wooded areas to thrive. When I was growing up, you could find them in most of the leafy suburbs. However, as our suburbs are now becoming more like cities, you need to get further out to see them.

I still get them in my neighborhood but I'm surrounded by trees and there are still plenty of woodlands nearby. I am starting to see them already and they peak late June/early July.

Out in the country however, they are still plentiful as always.

[jmacusa]

Yeah, that’s true, about trees and leafy suburbs. I’m fifty-seven and when I was eight or nine my brothers and sisters and me would be running around our back yard catching them and this was in Kearny, NJ. Kearny is located about two miles west, across the Passaic River from Newark and about the same distance from Jersey City and it’s about a forty minute train ride and you’re in downtown Manhattan. But this was almost fifty years ago and I live in southern NJ now. Haven’t seen one of the little things in some time.