80/20 lightening bug around here

Yeah, seems that way. I’ve heard it both ways growing up. Was just wondering. The boys caught a bunch of them the other night.

If you’re not calling it a firefly, at least act like you’ve seen one and spell it correctly. It is “lightning”, not “lightening”

But it has always been a lightning bug to me.

Lightning bug , when we were kids we would catch them .
When we had a jar full , we would squish them and spread them on our forehead, so we would glow !
My mother didn’t like us doing that :-)

June bugs

Now have them catch a toad then feed it lightning bugs.

I thought it was cool when I did it as a kid, my kids loved it, and so did the grandkids

Fixed the spelling error for you, I apologize for any dishonor I placed on the beetle in question.

I call them a firefly. Wife calls them lightning bugs. We have them all over the place here.

Oh, I surely will. They like catching toads also. I’ll mention it to them. Thanks for the great idea.

Both

Lightning bug or firefly.

Lighting bug or firefly. But, everything glows like that, near or chemical plants!!!

It sounds like "lot nin buuuuugs" round these here parts.

"Glow little glow worm, glitter glitter"! Glow worms are the larval female fire flies. Can be observed on the ground, especially along creek gravel bars.

We call them almost extinct in my area. Used to be a bunch.

I'd say 50-50 Firefly-Lightning Bug around here.

I usually go with firefly.

Smeared one on my buddies arm just last week.

WARPAINT!

I do recall they tasted HORRIBLE!