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I grew up in chicago, which against all odds is full of periodic cicadas and annual fireflies. but i've spe nt most of my life in the pnw and there are no fireflies ever. Even japan, which is super pacific and northwestern, has fireflies and cicadas. seems pretty hosed up if you ask me. please use this thread to talk about how cool are fireflies and I guess cicadas if that's what yore into.
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They're extinct too cold
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Jul 13, 2023 05:38
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They flew elsewhere OP.
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Jul 13, 2023 05:43
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they left and aren't coming back, they left the following note Take my love, take my land, Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free, You can't take the sky from me. Take me out to the black, Tell them I ain't comin back.
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Jul 13, 2023 05:45
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Due to the increasing danger of forest fires we had to exterminate all of them
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Jul 13, 2023 05:48
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You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as you fell asleep. What I'm getting at is you're a firefly racist trying to ignore the local populace. Shame OP, shame.
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Jul 13, 2023 05:50
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Fireflies spend their first year or two underground, where they are subjected to pesticides and fertilizers and urban sprawl Tl;Dr version: humans
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Jul 13, 2023 05:52
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i have only seen them in places where it is hot and humid in the summer. summers in the pacific northwest are not very humid.Dr.Smasher posted:Fireflies spend their first year or two underground, where they are subjected to pesticides and fertilizers and urban sprawl fireflies are common on the east coast, where urban sprawl, pesticides and fertilizers, and humans are just as common as in the pnw. ive seen them even in the middle of nyc.
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Jul 13, 2023 05:56
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Fireflies and squatch have beef.
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Jul 13, 2023 06:00
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Earwicker posted:i have only seen them in places where it is hot and humid in the summer. summers in the pacific northwest are not very humid. yeah, there are plot holes heere
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Jul 13, 2023 06:01
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There are no thunderstorms up there either, it's bullshit.
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Jul 13, 2023 06:03
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I wish we had them too 
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Jul 13, 2023 06:15
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They're actually called lightning bugs
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Jul 13, 2023 06:17
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I live in the PNW and am hoarding them all to myself. They are in my house.
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Jul 13, 2023 06:21
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I said come in! posted:I live in the PNW and am hoarding them all to myself. They are in my house. You did say to come in so technically anyone can enjoy them.
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Jul 13, 2023 06:24
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I said come in! posted:I live in the PNW and am hoarding them all to myself. They are in my house. god DAMMIT
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Jul 13, 2023 06:29
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I'm from there and California and never seen them, ever. Or the Northern Lights which I REALLY would love to see We do have amazing purple trees here in California that I never knew existed
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Jul 13, 2023 06:31
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The big thunderstorms and fireflies are the stuff I miss most about Midwest summers which is to say the PNW is better in nearly every way. It's too loving hot in the Midwest
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Jul 13, 2023 06:31
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Uh, you know you can only see them at night time right?
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PokeJoe posted:The big thunderstorms and fireflies are the stuff I miss most about Midwest summers which is to say the PNW is better in nearly every way. It's too loving hot in the Midwest
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Jul 13, 2023 06:44
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Das Boo posted:There are no thunderstorms up there either, it's bullshit. big thunder storms w that silent lightning in central eastern WA
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Jul 13, 2023 06:46
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I still remember one sheet lightning storm I watched one night probably 25 years ago in Wa They are rare, but epic
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Jul 13, 2023 06:55
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bioluminescence is freaky as gently caress like I'd freak out if my finger lit up like ET
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i'm originally from rural Illinois and i miss the gently caress out of fireflies. also, speaking of cicadas i finally heard some here in northern california and i realized how much i miss those, too.
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Jul 13, 2023 07:08
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The whole time I was in Bellingham, we got one thunderstorm that rained out Halloween. If you heard thunder in Portland, everybody would start texting you to ask if you heard that. Fireflies were but a distant dream.
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Jul 13, 2023 07:10
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I once watched a bunch of eps of Firefly in my friend's apartment in Seattle
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I moved from Australia, where we have no fireflies, to Tennessee for a few years when I was 8 and I remember losing my mind and running around in marvel at all the fireflies like it was some kind of magical wonderland and everyone looking at me like I was a goober.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I moved from Australia, where we have no fireflies, to Tennessee for a few years when I was 8 and I remember losing my mind and running around in marvel at all the fireflies like it was some kind of magical wonderland and everyone looking at me like I was a goober. if thats being a goober, then goob me up
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I grew up in the PNW and have never seen fireflies in my life, yet I feel some kind of strange nostalgia at the thought of them buzzing around in a summer night. We have phosphorescent oceans in the summer though from algae blooms, which is pretty fuckin magical at its peak. It's some real Avatar poo poo.
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Jul 13, 2023 07:33
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Fireflies and squatch have beef. War never changes
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Jul 13, 2023 07:49
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I just remembered the smell of fireflies. It's hard to describe, stink bugs smell like rotten cilantro but i don't know what fireflies smell like.
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Jul 13, 2023 08:03
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:They flew elsewhere OP. I got misty eyes as they said farewell 
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Jul 13, 2023 08:08
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So long and thanks for all the nectar
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Buce posted:Even japan, which is super pacific and northwestern, has fireflies and cicadas. seems pretty hosed up if you ask me. Op, if this keeps on next you'll be drawing parallels between interior China and the Midwest based solely on the lack of major bodies of water. Not every animal species can survive in an area even if the climate's right, due to whole bunch of zoological factors like - predation, competion, nesting availability, too loving windy, too many humid days - wings stick together sorry.
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Jul 13, 2023 08:33
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EVERY TIME GOING posted:Op, if this keeps on next you'll be drawing parallels between interior China and the Midwest based solely on the lack of major bodies of water. Not every animal species can survive in an area even if the climate's right, due to whole bunch of zoological factors like - predation, competion, nesting availability, too loving windy, too many humid days - wings stick together sorry. has anyone tried introducing them as an invasive species?
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Jul 13, 2023 08:49
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You abandoned the fireflies and cicadas OP, by moving far, far away. Every night they remember you and cry. You monster.
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Buce posted:I grew up in chicago, which against all odds is full of periodic cicadas and annual fireflies. but i've spe nt most of my life in the pnw and there are no fireflies ever. Even japan, which is super pacific and northwestern, has fireflies and cicadas. seems pretty hosed up if you ask me. When grunge died, so too did the fireflies. RIP in Peace.
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I got lots of em here op. PM me your name, address, DOB, SSN, and some one word answers to questions about your childhood and I’ll ship some right out.
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I said come in! posted:I live in the PNW and am hoarding them all to myself. They are in my house. I’m so friggin angry right now.
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I would gladly trade all the gad dang mosquitoes trying to break into my home for delightful fireflies
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