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riders on the storm

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • felsiq@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • KMAMURI@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We have this many right now in the swamps.

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4

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    • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyasBBoQqCA

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      maybe this link will help?

      www.firefly.org/build-firefly-habitat

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        1000001699

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can smell this picture.

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    • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        None that I’ve noticed

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  • SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Tormato@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ngl this looks like the minecraft twilight forest barrier

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    • AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s a mod

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  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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