What do you call them and where are you from? Trying to figure out if answer is based on where you live. Gotta a bet going here!
2006-07-22 06:46:35 · 13 answers · asked by Krn 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Fireflies... from the Northeast. It is definitely regional. While living in the south, everyone called them lightning bugs.
2006-07-22 16:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by Stephanie S 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Fireflies, I live in the Northeast US. I think it's cute when I hear Lightning Bugs though.
2006-07-22 06:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by locolady98 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call them fireflys and I live in Massachusetts. Most of my friends call them lightning bugs, though, and they're from the same place.
2006-07-22 06:52:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
right here is the south (Arkansas) we call them lightning bugs. -- while we've been youngsters we caught them and positioned them in a quart fruit jar. -- smiles playstation : in case you bypass away your storage door open at evening, the following day you will come across thousands of lightning bugs in simple terms interior between the partitions. they're approximately 3/4 inches long and skinny (a million/4 inch) bugs with long black wings on the tops of their bodies. --- i'm confident you had to appreciate that. --- smiles
2017-01-03 06:58:27 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightening Bugs...from Indiana and Illinois...Hell, I thought a firefly was an entirely different insect for a very long time!
2006-07-22 07:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning Bugs. I am from Kansas City, Missouri.
2006-07-22 06:56:13 · answer #6 · answered by Miss Lindsey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We call them firefly's I live in Colorado
2006-07-22 06:51:45 · answer #7 · answered by jojo8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I come from the Northeast and I call them lightening bugs. I haven't seen one in a long time and hope they're not extinct!
2006-07-22 06:52:45 · answer #8 · answered by Elizabeth S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in Texas and we call them fireflies.
2006-07-22 17:23:47 · answer #9 · answered by Sonie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what about lightening flies or firebugs? j/k im from california... we dont really have them here... but i call them fireflies, although i do remember calling them lightening bugs when i was little...
2006-07-22 14:46:00 · answer #10 · answered by Tracy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋