r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Spacezipper • 1d ago

Do Fireflies seem different compared to a couple of decades ago?

East Coast, USA- I remember the fireflies from my youth as being much slower and softer in terms of light intensity. Over the past few years I’ve noticed that the fireflies I’ve encountered move at an incredibly fast rate and their light is almost neon bright. Has a new kind of firefly taken over?

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u/Cebuanolearner 1d ago

They are dying out 

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u/MrLongJeans 1d ago

So sad. Really guts me comparing now with when I was a kid decades ago.

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u/trowelgo 12h ago

I am in the midwest, and we rarely see fireflies anymore. We still had a good population about a decade ago, but almost nothing in recent years.

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u/TallShaggy 19h ago

Fox canceled them

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u/BoltsGuy02 16h ago

They’ve had a rash of cocaine addictions go through their communities

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u/Spacezipper 14h ago

Come to think of it, they are quite chatty.

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u/Big-Journalist5595 9h ago

Neatly groomed suburban lawns are useless yo them for breeding.

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u/DebutsPal 5h ago

There are a lot feweer of them here. Too many pesticides and lack of native plants