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   samfran60 said, 11 months ago

   Put them in a jar, punch holes in the lid for air and a hand full of grass. They would last for days. Don’t know how long they live out in the open.
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   Clark Kent said, 11 months ago

   ♫ ♪ Centimeterworm, centimeterworm ♪ ♫
   ♪ ♫ measuring the merigolds ♫ ♪
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   david_42 said, 11 months ago

   @samfran60

   We’d always let them go in the morning, as well.
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   hippogriff said, 11 months ago

   toonmaster: Texas A&M is a wholly owned subsidiary of the agrochemical industry. Texas had fire ants long before the Argentine species was imported in 1941. Aggies just want to sell persistent poisons – which are what really kill lightning bugs.

   A recent import is the Mediterranean gecko, which somewhat competes with the green anole, but is otherwise benign. They like to cling to our windows and grab moths attracted by the light inside. One ate a lightning bug, which could be seen flashing inside it for almost a minute.
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   Comic Minister said, 11 months ago

   Oh boy.
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   BRANDON said, 11 months ago

   awwww lol
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   RUBBER DUCKY said, 11 months ago

   remember when ya caught lighting bugs, and pulled the light part off and put it on your fingernails? NO? hmph…
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   Jerry Carlson said, 11 months ago

   A cousin from Minnesota taught a summer school class on " Animal Friends" in 1981. At my sister’s post-wedding party she had all the younger cousins catch fireflies, which she didn’t have at home, to take back and show her students.
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   hippogriff said, 11 months ago

   Nothing weirder than a reply to a deleted comment. Am I going to have to recapitulate the comment I am replying to, for it to make any sense? Toonmaster was quoting Aggies who blamed fire ants for the reduction of lightning bugs, and divert attention from all the persistent, broad-spectrum pesticides they promote.
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