Insects of summer The Firefly
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- #donnielaws #nature #appalachia #insects #short 🦋 This little insect is one that reminds us of summer the most growing up. Commonly known as Fireflies but here in the southern Appalachia mountains we always called them Lightning Bugs. Thanks for watching. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL. THIS CHANNEL COVERS 12 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only!
When I was a child, and I am 76 now, lightning bugs were everywhere. We lived on a farm, and sometimes the fields were magical with them. There had to be thousands of them. The display at night was spectacular. I would catch them at night and put them in a jar with a piece of screen on top and watch them and release them in the morning. Those were the good old days. I always heard if they fly low to the ground that it was going to rain. Thank you Donnie for this video. You are the best.
That's so awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
I bet that was a magical sight on the farm! 😊
Oh my. I grew up in Brooklyn, NY (I am 79 now) and my childhood with lightning bugs was the same. To a 10yo kid, they were magical. It is so sad that I haven't seen one in many years (I have moved around the US a lot and now live in New England).
Donnie, I love your videos.
@@daveleo7248 Thanks for sharing my friend, God bless you.
@mimime5376 Thank you for your comment. This is a wonderful memory of the fields with the lightning bugs that I treasure. You have a good day.
Fireflies is a city way of saying lightning bugs! Haha!
Thanks for sharing.
@davidpawson9047 yeah, one of the same!
Oh yes! I’d forgotten it too Donnie! Don’t you worry about that……we all forget things on occasion. I sure can remember the lightning bugs!! They were so pretty at night…..it was like they were putting on their fantastic show for all to see and enjoy. I haven’t seen one since I was a little girl. So sad that everything is going away and our younger generations won’t have a chance to experience them. Thanks for sharing! Blessings always to you and your lovely wife! ❤️🙏😊
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
When I was a child they would be everywhere but now not so much
I understand my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Morning Donnie, thanks enjoy your video of wildlife
Good morning my friend. God bless you.
I grew up in North Carolina and just loved them!
Awesome my friend.
Good morning Donnie, I can fondly remember catching lightning bugs in a jar and watching them and then setting them free so Thank you for the fond memory. I hope you have a wonderful day and God Bless you my dear friend.😊❤🙏🏻
Good morning my. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Morning Mr.Donnie. Oh how I remember catching lightening bugs and putting them in a jar. Granny would give us a lid for the jar being sure to poke holes in it so they could breathe. Now she made sure that it was a mayonnaise lid or something like that, cause everything else was used for canning. We could keep them inside just for the night but had to let them go the next morning because Granny said they had families too. 😉Until next time God Bless
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
You haven't lived until you've seen a huge tree full of lightening bugs randomly lighting up at night...Beautiful...
Amen my friend.
My Mom told me about the lightning bugs growing up in MO. We don't have them here in Cali so I was so excited and blessed to get to see them when I took a trip to MO to meet and see family. Now I'm sharing this video with my grandson so he can see and know about them. Thank you so much🤗
WOW Thanks so much for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
That's right Mr. Donnie they are lightening bugs to us. I tied a string around them and caught frogs with em. Then we had to turn em loose....lol.....thank ya as always for sharing these childhood nature videos. Hope this finds you doing well. Have a blessed day.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Lightening bugs seem to be a thing of the past down here in south Georgia, Donnie. I do remember catching them in jars when my cousins and I were young, and releasing them the next morning. Good times and memories. God bless you, my friend.🙏❤️
I understand my friend. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Yes sir they used to be millions of them but now very few I think they are awesome insects thanks for sharing God bless you sir
Amen my friend. They are not like they used to be. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Great videos thanks for sharing this with us have a blessed day 🙏
I love seeing the lightning bugs. I remember we would always catch them when we where kids put them in a jar and let them go. Thank you Mr. Donnie for sharing this. Have a wonderful and blessed day ❤️
Thank you so much my friend for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Absolutely beautiful GOD BLESS YOU
Amen my friend. God bless you.
I love to see and hear all the sounds of the bugs and birds. I remember that they used to be an old saying that for every fog we have in August there is going to be a snow this winter ❄️ I know that this year we have been overwhelmed by the flys and sweat bee's and other bugs lots of grass hopper s. Maybe a big cold 🥶 winter. I love learning about the sings of winter and stuff.thanks have a blessed day 🙏
My favorite insect after dragonfly. Beautiful!
Awesome my friend.
Lightnin' bugs
Im almost 70 & still love sitting on the porch watching them! Youre righ , sadly there doesnt seem to be as many of them anymore. I hope the numbers get bigger soon.
Me to my friend. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you.
"They're not the number they use to be." That's the sad truth around my area. Saw one light up in my garden last week. First one in years. Then a hail storm blew threw and tore it up a couple days ago. It'll come back. Nature has a tendency to do that if we let it.
Amen my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing this Mr Donnie ❤God bless you ❤
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.
Just talking about that last night, millions of them back in the day. Awesome share
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome. Thanks so much for sharing.
@@donnielaws7020 Take care
I think all mountain youngins have got an empty canning jar from their mama's with holes poked in the lid and caught as many as we could to watch them all lighting up for an hour or 2 before they made us turn them loose! It's a southern childhood tradition ❤ Thanks for the video Mr Donnie!
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Summertime treasure, thank you Mr Donnie!!
Amen my friend. Your very welcome.
In jersey we call the lightning bugs too! I didn’t know they had 2 sets of wings. God’s beautiful creations❤️❤️❤️Thank you Donnie!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.
I am 73 years old and one of the best time we would play after sundown and catch them.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing.
Donnie you are so right. When I was a kid we would go outside just at the beginning of night fall and catch lightning bugs and put them in a jar. I remember once I was at my Nanny house and I was using a knife to poke holes in the jar lid and I missed and stabbed my hand and I still have a scar to remind me of those fun times. You are so right you don't see lightning bugs like we use to. That was always a good reminder when I was young that summer time was here. Thanks for the great memory of being young and running around barefoot at night chasing lightning bugs.
God bless you my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Sweet memories. Thank you Mr Donnie 😊❤
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏🌄
Thank you friend. God bless you.
🇺🇸❤🤍💙 💯LIGHTNING BUGS!❤🐛🇺🇸
As kids my little brother and i camped out a lot in the backyard. Well we caught a bunch of them one night and released them in our tent with us. We thought it was just the greatest fun having lots of moving nightlights right there with us. Excepting the fact when we woke up there was an equal amount of "ugly" bugs crawling around in our tent! Lol. Somehow we didn't think ahead to how they would look in the morning light. Great memories 40+ years later. Thanks for sharing!
WOW that's amazing my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories.
Definitely one of my favorite parts of summer. So mesmerizing to watch. Bioluminescence is such an interesting thing. Have a good one Donnie👍🏼🇺🇸😎
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Donnie you just bought back my childhood memories of those critters many times my dad would stay late at the park with me and my brothers and he would play dominoes with his buddies after dusk my brothers and I would be fascinated watching these flies glow in the darkness from every which way and trying to catch them what a sight that was us
That's awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Lightning bugs thats what we call them.
Good morning Mr Donnie i remember catching fire flies God bless you
Good morning my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
I love lightnin' bugs! When I was a kid we caught them to sell to a place in town, collecting them for research. got a penny for each one! Anyway, it was a lot of fun....thanks Donnie!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Good morning Donnie brother. I pray your healing is going great Amen 🙏
Good morning my friend. I'm doing better. God bless you.
Thanks again for sharing
Your very welcome my friend.
Good morning- those little guys were almost extinct at one time. I was told they were being captured, and the yellow light they have was being used in medicine. I don’t know what kind. The population of them is still low. Have a great day.
Good morning my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Some yrs back not sure when though but UT was paying people so much a hundred or thousand to catch them for research on what made them light up
Used to catch them in a jar and keep in my room overnight. Let them go the next morning.
Awesome my friend.
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I spent many hours seeing how many I could get into a jar. One of the great memories of childhood. Hope you are doing well! God bless!
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Totally love Fireflies.
Awesome my friend.
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My brother and i caught them as kids, put them on our dresser and would waje up in the morning to find Dad had ket tgem out. My kids and grandkids gave caught them the same way here at our house. This evening i saw a bunch out in our sideyard. They are awesome insects.
Thanks for bringing a memory of the time when I caught them no TV back then so it was something to do before bedtime
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
I remember the lightning bugs was so thick could just open a jar and they would fly in.We could also see the Milky Way pretty easily also.I feel bad for the Kids today. God Bless the lightning bugs and You n Yours.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
I spent many summers catching lightening bugs..put them in a jar by my bed at night..thanks Donnie👍👍
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Donnie I live in east Texas we do not have firefly anymore.Thank you for sharing with us.God bless.
WOW that's a shame my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Not many in South Louisiana! Last time I saw a lot of them is when we were camping on DeGray Lake south of Hot Springs Arkansas! It was beautiful and reminded me of growing up in Northwest Louisiana!❤️
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories.
I saw the first one on May the fourth here in the Brush Mountains of NC. That's when summer is coming fast. I love to see em'.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Lightning bugs!! I noticed their numbers diminished just in my lifetime. Wondered why that might be. I was such a "gurly-gurl" that lightning bugs were about the only bug i wasn't scared of and would hold in my hand. My fears of creepy crawlers got picked up by my daughters (my poor example). But one of my fondest memories was teaching my daughters how to catch lightning bugs. If mom would touch a bug, then nothing to be afraid of. I don't think they have lightning bugs west of the Rockys. Thanks for bringing back those memories Mr. Donnie!! ❤❤
WOW Thanks so much for sharing your memories my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
THUMBS up to this video!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Yelp
Can't forget the Lighting bugs
Totally country to me!!!
Awesome my friend.
Good morning Donnie. Thank you for sharing this. I can see them only if i go camping way outside of my local area. I miss seeing them So this is a treat that brings back lots of good childhood memories.
Good morning my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
God Bless you my friend and have a beautiful day
Here in Ohio we call them both names. Like everything else that's beautiful and harmless, our lightning bug populations have plummeted too. There are bad people that have been spraying poison on all of us for years and years now. If a stop would be put to it----then all of nature will bounce back in a few years time. I'm holding the fort, waiting to see those days, I hope. If I can last that long. God Bless you, Donnie, for this sweet little video.
I understand my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing this.
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Something I really miss about not living in the South is lightning bugs. I haven't seen a one since I came to Albuquerque. 😢
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I was up 12000ft in Tenn. the other night when two different types of fire flies emerged. There was a party up on top that mountain for this emergence. It was a beautiful sight to behold Donnie..
Amen❤
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
@@donnielaws7020 😊 it was so beautiful.. and I took yours and Jareds advice and drove through Cades Cove. I actually parked by a waterfall and slept the night there, listening to the rushing water. I could not find that really tall waterfall but Ill go back for sure. Its really hot today so I left and drove to D.C. where my friend lives to get out of the heat. I cant take this heat.. night is fine but day is a killer for me...no thyroid.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 you do help me get around. I surely do Thank you! Im glad you are pretty much healed now and I hope to see you get out for your metal detecting. But to hot right now.. Keep inside with you wife and drink lemonaide!
Donnie you be right, they are not that numerous. I hear the night noise in the background of them cicadas. This year I ain't heard a one so far, in 21 they were so noisy it drive a sane man nuts if you slept with window open. This year quiet with the sounds of the whipperwills but not a whole lot of lightening bugs this year. Keep it up Mr. DONNIE enjoying your video's of our special place on GOD's earth.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. They aren't as many as they use to be that's for sure.
I was just thinking about lightning bugs the other night while sitting around the old fire pit in the back yard. Not nearly the amount that were around when i was young. I grew up on a farm in new Jersey in the 70s and 80s and always looked forward to seeing the first ones of the year. Crazy just the other night i seen my first 2 or 3 of the year. Think its from all the pesticides, Shame.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. That's for sure. They are not at the numbers they use to be.
gday donnie. we do not have those here in new zealand.. the closest we have is glow worms they live in caves and river banks.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
We enjoyed them in so many ways back when..... some ways not so kind. I do remember how they stink after in that jar all night. Whew !!! God Bless. NW ga.
Thank you friend for sharing your memories. God bless you.
@tville7043 Curious from your username if you're originally from South Georgia.
@@mhelen7360
No I still live on part of the old farm I was raised on in North West Georgia about 70 years now.
Hey Donnie did you ever tie a piece of thread around a june bugs leg and watch it fly in circles?
I did when I was young my friend. It was fun. Thanks for sharing.
For years I have said that anyone looking for proof that God exists need look no further than the lightning bug. Kids are fascinated by and curious about insects. And here is an insect that flies low enough and slow enough that young kids can catch them with their bare hands. They don't bite, they don't sting, they don't pinch. They're harmless. And best of all, they light up! Who but God would have created such a captivating and kid-friendly bug?
Amen my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Well said. God bless you.
Your last two insects video hasn't played right on my TV for reason it's like thay are skipping kids like a DVD has been scratched
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
We seem to have a lot this year, for a change!
Awesome my friend. That's great.
Volkswagen is not the only bug that uses LED technology 😅
That's true my friend. Thanks so much for sharing.
I know it’s summer when I see them lightning bugs
Awesome my friend.
Not crazy about bugs. But I wish we still had them a my place.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
The fire flys just came out here in Massachusetts 🪰💨🔥
Awesome my friend.
Yeah don’t seem like there’s as many of them as when I was a kid… thanks buddy
Thanks for sharing this Tommy. Take care my friend.
Too much development has diminish them,😢 unfortunately.
So true my friend. It's so sad.
How many wonderful memories I have of lightning bugs! All the beautiful sounds of summer. Thanks Mr. Donnie and God Bless you!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Oh yes the Lightning Bug. I hate to admit it but as kids, we would pull out the light and make rings, and bracelets that would sparkle in the dark. Shame, shame. Your friend, Louise
Thank you so much for sharing this. God bless you.
We did the same thing as children 😂 We'd slap them while they were lit, and write on ourselves 😢. So cruel. So I never taught my children that lol.
I feel like crying every time I mow the grass and the lightening bugs start flying around. 😢 I hate accidentally having to disturb and possibly kill them. I live in the woods where it's one of the only place for miles of agricultural fields where they can congregate. But I can't let my lawn turn into a pasture. 😭
I understand my friend. Thanks so much for sharing.
There are some places where they encourage you not to mow your lawn in the month of May.If i let mine get any bigger,will have to bushhog it.😅
@@troyjenkins3886 🤣 oh nooo
Yup. Frequent mowing certainly reduces their numbers, but pesticides are far more devastating. There’s a field across from my house which has almost no lightning bugs, while I have lots more. And I do mow, although I don’t quite keep up. Yet the field lies mostly undisturbed between planting and harvest. 🙁
@@nicholasittzes7224WOW!
Good morning 😊
Love fireflies I love watching them in my land as it slowly gets dark
Good morning my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
They return on almost the same date every year (June 11th) here in Wantage, NJ! I'm almost 80 and they still make me smile when they arrive!
That's so awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Donnie. God bless, brother.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.
Oh wow!! A lightning bug!!! We used to play with them and take the glowlight and play they were rings. There were so many of them back in my day!! Now you are lucky to see a few every now and then. Thanks for sharing. ❤🙏
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Some yrs back not sure when though but UT was paying people so much a hundred or thousand to catch them for research on what made them light up
I remember that my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Use to catch them was young always let them go. Don't see them much anymore. ❤
Brings back some mighty precious memories, cousin Donnie! Thanks, dear cousin, and G-d bless! Please pray for the peace of Yerushalayim.
Amen my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing.
Hi Donnie! Thanks for taking me and others on a trip down memory lane. When I was young I remember catching them. Like you said they were everywhere in New Jersey. We did call them lightning bugs. I forgot all about them so thank you! 😊🙏🏼❤️🔥🪰
Hello my friend. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you. Your very welcome.
This video brought back memories not only of catching them myself but watching my children and grandchildren catching them. I agree you see only a fraction of what you saw when I was a child. But most children now don't know about the fun of catching them. Thank you for sharing. God bless.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Oh Donnie, such summer fun memories.
Catching lightening bugs and getting eaten alive, at the same time, with mosquitos.
I understand that my friend. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you.
Glad you included the lightning bugs, Mr Donnie. Yes, collecting a jar of them as a kid to use as a miniature lantern was so much fun. If I remember correctly, it was the use of DDT and other pesticides that reduced their population so greatly.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
They have seriously declined in numbers here in France, here we call them Glow Worms,( Lampyris nactiluca), it is a beetle, the early stages feed on Snails, so they are a huge asset, I see very few now even in deepest rural France. Chris B.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I wondered why they didn't make the list. In Pennsylvania there were yellow ones then the whiter models came along. I'll never forget taking my nieces from California to see their first field of them back home. They were thrilled. Thanks for the memories Donnie.
Thank you friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
For the longest time, I thought they were gone, never saw them out. But the last two years here in Southwestern Indiana I have noticed them a lot out in my yard out in the woods and I’m sure glad to see them back. Thank you, Mr. Donnie.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
I love to see when the fireflies come out in the summer!
Thank you friend for sharing.
Oh how I miss Lightning Bugs. 😢
Thanks so much for sharing.
They are out now in Ohio
Awesome my friend.
Wonderful friend 👍
Thank you friend.
Love lightning bugs especially when they light up in the dark beautiful
Awesome my friend.
Thanks buddy they are nice
Brings back childhood memories. I've countless numbers of them and pt them in a jar. There's not a many of them where I live as there used to be.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Love it.
Just visited Clyde NC from Florida and enjoyed seeing the lightning bugs
Awesome my friend.
Good morning Donnie….I pray you are doing well…. I remember catching these as a child….Thanks Donnie for bringing back fond memories of my childhood❤…. I haven’t thought about this in many years…Take care God Bless & Lord willing I will see you next time 🙏🏻❤️💯☦️🇮🇱
Good morning my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing. Your very welcome.