Dad: When I was a kid we'd have jars full of lightning bugs! Dill: Oh. Dill: When your dad was a kid, lightning bugs came in a jar. Alice: he always had a stunted sense of fun.
(From Yesterday) Lightning bugs of the Genus Photuris mimic the signals of female Photurus to lure males in as food. See http://insects.about.com/od/beetles/qt/Flash-Mimicry-By-Fireflies.htm
margueritem almost 11 years ago
Not his fault.
Linux0s almost 11 years ago
Hardly anyone cans their own lightning bugs any more.
WoodEye almost 11 years ago
Yeah, you have to wear sunglasses!!
CasualObserver almost 11 years ago
Are there still lightning bugs? Haven’t we killed them all yet?
GROG Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I saw no lightning bugs to can.
arsmall almost 11 years ago
uhhh…Dill could be Peter Otterloops’ love child
ossiningaling almost 11 years ago
Must have been a Mason.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 11 years ago
(From Yesterday) Lightning bugs of the Genus Photuris mimic the signals of female Photurus to lure males in as food. See http://insects.about.com/od/beetles/qt/Flash-Mimicry-By-Fireflies.htm
http://academia.edu/377512/Firefly_Femmes_Fatales_A_Case_Study_in_the_Semiotics_of_Deception
or the Wikipedia entry on “Aggreeive Mimicry.”
Sisyphos almost 11 years ago
Alice’s generation obviously surpasses that of Mr. Peter Otterloop. Dill is no worse at reporting what he heard than are most persons….
JP Steve Premium Member almost 11 years ago
“signals of female Photinus” “Aggressive Mimicry”(sigh, time for a coffee!)
Popeyesforearm almost 11 years ago
we tried to bring a jar home from Kansas to L.A. but they never made it over the Great Divide.