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Lombard, IL

How do we feel about them and our beloved pumpkins? For some reason I have a TON in the yard. They don't seem to be bothering them, but I thought I would ask the experts just in case.

7/2/2007 11:05:20 PM

Hudsonville, Michigan (michiganpumpkins@sbcglobal.net)

Never had a problem with them around the patch...

7/3/2007 6:56:22 AM

President - GPC

Do they glow at night. I have never seen a fire fly.

7/3/2007 9:05:46 AM

Wood River, IL (kennyw_49@yahoo.com)

Wiz, The only thing that beats a field full of Lighting Bugs, is seeing the Northern Lights in Alaska. Isn't nature breathtaking

7/3/2007 10:02:13 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

lightning bugs are good bugs... The larvae are predacious and eat all kinds of things including slugs, snails and other larvae.

7/3/2007 1:45:43 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficial40_lightning_bug.htm

Wow another thing used to treat diseases..

7/3/2007 1:47:42 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Lightning Bugs = GOOD.

We get scads of them most years but with slighlty lower rainfall the count seems off a little this year. Lot's of fun for young & the young at heart.

7/3/2007 4:50:25 PM

Grant, MI

Anyone else here remembering hours of fun as a kid collecting lightning bugs in a bell jar. Then trying to use them as a flashlight?

7/3/2007 8:19:07 PM

ordinary,VA

Darren O. im still having hours of fun collecting lightning bugs. this time around with my grandson.

7/3/2007 9:18:08 PM

Grant, MI

Did I forget to mantion the step where you shake them up till they are lighting up constantly (aka- Dead)?

Maybe that was just me.

7/3/2007 11:18:14 PM

Cottage Grove, MN

Hey Shannon, that page says they eat EARTH WORMS! Ahhhggg!

7/4/2007 3:25:46 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Earthworms are alien to many US soils. In some settings earthworms are considered an invasive species.

7/4/2007 5:22:07 PM

Collecting them as a kid? Heck, I caught some in a jar last week with my friend and I'm 22!

7/6/2007 1:40:33 PM