Firefly evenings
Summer’s here and fireflies are flickering in the fading twilight, lighting up the evenings. I’ve got some spectacular lightning bug images from 2008 and now this year, but I’m saving most of them for a book I have in development.
The firefly below is a male, caught in the instant before he launched himself into the air to show off his lighting skills in search of a mate.
Any other firefly sightings out there? Are their more fireflies this year than in the past, or less?










Down here in the Shenandoah Valley, there seems to be way more fireflies than in previous years…There are so many that they even showed up on a short video I took, not knowing if their light would be received by the cameras CCDs. Maybe all the moisture/rain we got in the spring made for more fireflies?
Thanks for the info, Cort. We had a cold, wet spring too. I’m not sure yet if we have more or less here in SE Michigan.
Hello,
This is a lovely photograph. I am writing a story about fireflies for our newspaper. May I use this photo to accompany my story?
Thank you.
Jean Cole
Editor, Hometown Focus
Virginia, MN
Thanks Jean. I’ll contact you and we can work out an arrangement to use one of my wildlife images.
Not so much in the way of sightings this year, here in Central Alberta – but we’ve had a long, cold, dry spring. Lovely photo Rick!
Thanks Amy. Still cold and rainy here, high only 70 today. I photographed fireflies in the rain yesterday.
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