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In reply to the discussion: Long Exposure Photographs of Fireflies [View all]marzipanni
(6,011 posts)2. I used to see them when I was a child
in Massachusetts.
I was visiting almost 19 years ago and my brother and I were walking in the early summer night with my son, who was not yet a year old, on roads through the hilly woods. We heard funny sounds coming from the woods that sounded like a soft, repeating Donald Duck quack. My brother and I were making the sound back at them and laughing.
My brothers told me the sound was coming from some kind of large white tree cricket. I'll have to ask the naturalist brother again what they were; the only tree crickets I found on the internet make a high sound.
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Love this - fireflies (lightening bugs) are a huge part of childhood summer memories for me
dr.strangelove
May 2014
#8
No fireflys where I live, but when I visited Ohio I saw them for the first time & was mesmerized!
CrispyQ
May 2014
#22