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Spinz posted:I'm from there and California and never seen them, ever. Or the Northern Lights which I REALLY would love to see I saw it once. Pictures can't do it justice. It's worth a trip north.
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There's a big northern lights event tonight, btw.
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Not to brag, but.... I got a ton of fireflies this year. They are spooky blinking in the dark forest.
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i thought i was seeing firefly flashes for the first time a few nights ago here in FL later i found out i was driving on one of the new radioactive roads they've been installing
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Bad Purchase posted:i thought i was seeing firefly flashes for the first time a few nights ago here in FL Lol. Just hit your head a few times, will clear right out.
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Das Boo posted:There's a big northern lights event tonight, btw. i saw that there was a kp8 or 9 event or something, btu i dunno if it reaches aaaalll the way down here
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https://www.fireflyatlas.org/map
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Apparently, the firefly Ellychnia obscurevittata, commonly known as the Obscured- or hidden-firefly is exclusively found in Oregon. So your premise is clearly flawed, you just haven't Caught Them All yet. Keep working on that dex, pal.
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So we actually do get fireflies over in the PNW, they just don't actually light up! Beetles are weird, yo.
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Womyn Capote posted:
Also happens to be my birth name.
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https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1215479/Ellychnia_obscurevittata Actually after reading more about this specific firefly it does seem possible that someone wanted to try getting away with making up a fake bug in 1970 and it might have worked.
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You have to go to Owl City for that OP
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Womyn Capote posted:https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1215479/Ellychnia_obscurevittata a paper posted:Ellychnia obscurevittata is endemic to Oregon, USA (Fender 1970, Lloyd 2003). It is known from a single locality in Klamath County (Breast Mountain) (Fender 1970). Because it has been described from only the type locality, the extent of occurrence (EOO) cannot be determined.
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Das Boo posted:There's a big northern lights event tonight, btw. where
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dervival posted:So we actually do get fireflies over in the PNW, they just don't actually light up! Beetles are weird, yo. faaaaaake
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PokeJoe posted:where North
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cool thanks
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Buce posted:i saw that there was a kp8 or 9 event or something, btu i dunno if it reaches aaaalll the way down here There was a KP8 in March that was seen as far south as New Mexico. https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-northern-new-mexico/northern-lights-appear-in-some-parts-of-new-mexico/ I hope everyone gets a chance to see an overhead show at least once in their lives, it's seriously amazing, especially when they flash super bright purple and white, and you can see the solar wind moving through the structures like wind in a grassy meadow. Where I live, I get to see it happen every couple of months during solar maximum. Not this time though, visibility is currently <8km thanks to forest fire smoke.
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There were like no lightning bugs in NYC from like 2000 - 2015 They were all dying from the city spraying mosquito deterrent (to curb viruses like Zika and others). Ask any 90s kid, there used to be lightning bugs everywhere, and then they disappeared for many years. Their return still feels recent.
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PokeJoe posted:where Aw, looks like they backtracked it. It was originally supposed to be in 17 states and Canada, now it's pretty much just mid-west North and Canada.
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EVERY TIME GOING posted:Also happens to be my birth name. Ellychnia J Obscurevittata you mind your manners!
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firefly’s deserved to be cancelled
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poisonpill posted:firefly’s deserved to be cancelled You can't take the sky from me
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gotta say the cicadas in Japan during the summer are kind of great even if some people think they are annoying
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I have a friend from Oregon who got in an argument with her teacher growing up over the existence of fireflies. The teacher thought they were make believe like unicorns or something. They had to get the parents involved to convince this teacher that fireflies were real
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Buce posted:
https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/320491-Pterotus-obscuripennis
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