Has anyone else ever cried over the death of fireflies or lightning bugs?

Question

When I was a little kid I used to catch them in a jar and put some leaves in the jar at night, then the next morning they would be dead and I cried the first time it happened. Haha. Has anyone else done that or was that just me?

Answer 1

no i think its just you.
my sister used to catch them then put them on the road and scrape them so they made a glowing line.. it was cruel. but kinda cool?

Answer 2

Yes, I have a memory from long, long ago crying over the death of what I called lightning bugs, feeling guilty that I put them in a jar and they died.

Answer 3

right here is the south (Arkansas) we call them lightning bugs. -- as quickly as we've been young babies we caught them and positioned them in a quart fruit jar. -- smiles playstation : in case you pass away your storage door open at night, the next day you will discover 1000's of lightning bugs in basic terms interior between the partitions. they are approximately 3/4 inches long and skinny (a million/4 inch) bugs with long black wings on the tops of their bodies. --- i'm useful you needed to be conscious of that. --- smiles

Answer 4

Of course it wasn't just you!!!
I remember being a teenager, catching this cute little frog way out in a field really far from water and in trying to get it back to water, I held it too tight and killed it. I bawled my eyes out. It was a FROG, but it is still a living thing!!!

Answer 5

Yes I have and i ran over a chipmunk to and i asked my dad to bury it in the yard.

Answer 6

No,I would release them before I went inside.

Answer 7

Heck no, I used to pull off their "lights" at night and stick them on me as jewelry....earrings, necklaces, bracelets, it was such fun!

Answer 8

Honestly,no I never had

Answer 9

Not me