I have lived in various parts of the country and have always seen everywhere I've been...except maybe Oregon, but they are probably there are well...just wasn't paying attention. Best place to see them is out in the woods away from city lights. Ozarks are full of them....but right now...extremely hot, so maybe not so much

I'm 26 now but I grew up in upper Michigan right on Lake Michigan and remember them invading the front yard from time to time. It's the coolest thing to see all these little flickering lights. My daughter is 3 and it saddens me to think the only lightning bug she will ever know will be Ray from The Princess and the Frog.

I've lived 35 minutes north of Bronx, NY for 35 years. As long as I've been here there's been an abundance of lightning bugs. The hotter and more humid nights is when I see the most of them. I haven't seen a decrease in numbers over 35 years over here.

Someone mentioned that they glow yellow? Usually the color that they glow around here is green. When I was a kid, I swear I remember seeing a clear or white color coming from a lightning bug as well a seeing a red one. I was a kid(maybe with an over active imagination) and haven't seen anything but green lightining bugs since being a teen and adult. I'm just wondering if the yellow color that was mentioned is the same color that I'm seeing as green? If I actually did see those other colors when I was a kid, then I guess any color could be possible. If these other colors do actually exist then they are quite rare and probably not seen to often or by most people. Has anybody out there ever seen other color variations of the quite awesome lightning bugs?

I remember catching these in a jar as a kid at my Nana's house!

I dont see them in Florida where I live but my friends who live in the woods so to speak say they see them out there. I didn't know they were even in Florida. When I saw them I was always up north.

Glad to hear that the red ones are out there and that I actually remember something from so long ago. I'd like to think that a white/clear one is not out of the realm of possibility, but like I said unless someone else has seen one than either I was imagining it or was the luckiest person ever to have caught a glimpse.

I've lived in Michigan all my life and have always seen lightning bugs...every year. Some years there's more and some years less but I see them every summer. I have noticed however there seems to be an abundance of them this year. I live near Detroit and our back yard is just teeming with them. It seems the hotter and muggier it is the more I notice them in large numbers.

Funny you should say that! I live in Michigan myself and very rarely seen Lightening Bugs (Fireflys), and the past year ive seen a ton. Once when I was walking the pathway to go to Metro Beach it was dark and we look to the field next to us and theres thousands, it was beautiful. And another time I came home and saw them all hovering over the grass.

Its pretty neat and a beautiful sight.

Originally posted by efbeenie
Glad to hear that the red ones are out there and that I actually remember something from so long ago. I'd like to think that a white/clear one is not out of the realm of possibility, but like I said unless someone else has seen one than either I was imagining it or was the luckiest person ever to have caught a glimpse.

The only fireflies I've seen here in Canada appear to have been a light yellow/white-ish colour...

I remember squishing them and smearing their glow on our bodies like war paint, and going to play a game of late-night lazer tag And now that I think of it, that's utterly disgusting!

I've never seen or even heard of green or red ones!