riders on the storm

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a long exposure, but there really can be that many of them. I was out on a moonless night in upstate New York. It was dark enough that an amazing number of stars was visible (I could even see the Milky Way), I was surrounded by fireflies and glowworms, and there were no other sources of light one I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn’t see my own feet, just lights in all directions.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to live out in the country near a nature preserve and can confirm it looks like this.

    Now I’m forced to live in the burbs and get excited when I see a single firefly.

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There used to be at least some fireflies every year where I lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid but now there aren’t.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      stop mowing your lawn and stop raking leaves, and the fireflies ought to come back

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have amazing memories as a kid seeing fields that looked like this! I miss it.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Me too. :)

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  • KMAMURI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have this many right now in the swamps.

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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4

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  • dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks, me and all the old people thought it was The Doors. youtu.be/7G2-FPlvY58

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  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know why this song makes me cry every time I hear it. Something about it gets me right in the soul. Also I didn’t know the artist or song name so thanks for the link, that is a beautiful video; I haven’t seen it before and after a bit of an emotionally taxing day I got a happy cry and I feel a lot lighter inside

    💚 Thank you for brightening this stranger’s day

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    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aww I’m super glad to hear it improved your day, and you’ll be able to find it again in the future!

      I get the same reaction to it, I think it’s the use of flat melancholic notes scattered throughout, such as in the refrain “I’d like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly”. For me anyway. I love that sort of upbeat but sorrowful sort of thing.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyasBBoQqCA

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got a million hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs!

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  • felsiq@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve always wondered if the hugs were distributed evenly or if there was a hugs georg firefly and the rest were normal ones

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I only got 30k :(

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I moved away from a state that has them. They’re so beautiful to watch over a big open field. Like stars that fill the ground to complete the sky.

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• Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  During COVID when nobody able to spray for mosquitoes there was a really cool resurgence - even in the suburbs. Came home from a bicycle ride late one evening, and swear every tree had Christmas lights strung up, they were chilling out and just glimmering in every branch.

  I pushed the bike home that night and watched the show in the trees, a lovely coda to the day

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• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sat with a couple friends, heavily under the influence of mushrooms, and watched fireflies across a newly planted tree farm field.

  I’m pretty sure the three of us each took our own universal truth from that night but in that moment I was pretty sure I witnessed the fireflies riding some sort of universal wave, like gravity and they would jump from wave to wave when they blinked.

  Anyways. I miss being young.

  Or shrooms. Maybe I just miss those…

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shrooms are great, even before the studies came out saying they could treat depression etc for years after taking I knew.

    One good day on shrooms and 6 months of better life after

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  • 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ha I had a similar experience, mushrooms are great.

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My house is like this but with mosquitoes instead of fires

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    First time I prefer mosquitoes because the alternative is my home burning down

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• UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s how forests fires get started. That and DEI.

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the (((space lasers)))

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a lot in my backyard, it’s a treat to see at n8ght. I have been searching online on what plants they like so I could build a firefly refuge and encourage their breeding but I can’t find any info.

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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    maybe this link will help?

    www.firefly.org/build-firefly-habitat

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1000001699

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• Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can smell this picture.

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  • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do the bugs have a scent? I’ve never lived in an area with them.

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    • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When we were kids we’d catch them in jars sometimes and if you smelled the jar after it def had a scent. If the population is dense enough you can just smell it in the air.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      None that I’ve noticed

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• SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember when Florida had them in large number, not like that but still maybe one every 10 feet or so. It was pretty. Now I get excited if I see any at all. If I see 3 in the same night I am ecstatic.

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• levzzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where is the moth poster when we need him

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• 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I took my friends to go see trees full of fireflies while camping and doing mushrooms, mind blowing.

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• Doublenut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had an experience like this camping out in the foothills of the Catskills. One of my favorite camping trips.

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• Tormato@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was just having this conversation last night with a friend as we were remarking to each other how mesmerizing dusk is with the summer fireflies.

  When he said they didn’t exist out West where he grew up I was surprised.

  Thought all along fireflies at dusk was one of the more enchanting parts of summer.

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• NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ngl this looks like the minecraft twilight forest barrier

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  • AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What the fuck is a twilight forest barrier!

    I swear to god one day I’ll log into my minecraft world and won’t recognize anything

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    • NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a mod

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never seen fire flies in real life I’ve always had to make do with embers from a fire

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same here until I moved to Ohio for a few years, they’re really cool to have around.

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• big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there were so many fireflies in nyc yesterday, i was shocked!

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