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minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoIt’s a far cry from when I lived in the woods and could walk around on a dark night just from the light of fireflies.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoWhen I was a child in the 70s we’d visit my great-grandparents in Indianapolis and the lightning bugs were like that. Image, a heavily polluted, major metro area had more lightning bugs than anywhere I’ve seen since.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI’m living in the same place I grew up and when I was a kid we could catch a couple dozen a night, enough to fill a jar and read by.
It’s a far cry from when I lived in the woods and could walk around on a dark night just from the light of fireflies.
When I was a child in the 70s we’d visit my great-grandparents in Indianapolis and the lightning bugs were like that. Image, a heavily polluted, major metro area had more lightning bugs than anywhere I’ve seen since.
I’m living in the same place I grew up and when I was a kid we could catch a couple dozen a night, enough to fill a jar and read by.