Lampyridae
As this website is, beneath and within its function as a means of keeping family and friends abreast of our doings, a personal journal, it is worth noting that this has been an excellent summer for fireflies in Vermillion. For the past several weeks we've been routinely enchanted (paradoxical though it sounds) by the local glowing chorus line on our evening walks. Two nights ago we didn't have to walk far, as our entire backyard was filled with lightning bugs, causing the usually squalid weed-lot to resemble a pre-CGI special effect for fairy dust.
Most of the fireflies swooped around a few feet above the lawn, but a few daring or confused bugs spiraled high up into the air where they were (probably) welcomed warmly by several bats.
Thunderstorms, fireflies, and bats are three things that make me love summer in Vermillion.
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I've never seen lightening bugs. Never. I'd love to see them in action sometime--they sound lovely.
A South Dakota thunderstorm once interrupted our night camping at the KOA outside of Sioux Falls ("every site has one tree") and forced us to sleep in the car. Despite the cricks in our necks the next morning, we agreed it had been a fantastic storm.
Good stuff.
Posted by: Lisa | July 1, 2006 04:40 PM