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[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Where is the moth poster when we need him

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's how forests fires get started. That and DEI.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Don’t forget the (((space lasers)))

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago

I took my friends to go see trees full of fireflies while camping and doing mushrooms, mind blowing.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My house is like this but with mosquitoes instead of fires

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

First time I prefer mosquitoes because the alternative is my home burning down

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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. 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 once I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn't see my own feet, just lights in all directions.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

We have this many right now in the swamps.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] felsiq@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day 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

I only got 30k :(

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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…

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Ha I had a similar experience, mushrooms are great.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day 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

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Pretty sure that line is a reference to this. One of my fave songs :)

Owl City - Fireflies

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It is definitely a reference and I don’t know why you got downvoted for that lol.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Someone might have thought it was so obvious that it didn't need stating and would just ruin the joke. Alternatively, someone who was somehow unaware of the song and assumed that would be the case for nearly everyone else might have overconfidently decided it was a stretch without looking at the first line of the song.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

Someone just jelly of my amazing taste in nearly-20-year-old music, probably 😊

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I don’t think that a single downvote is worth paying attention to.

[–] MycarHolmes@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

maybe because anyone who has played Need For Speed instantly thinks of this song instead.

[–] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks, me and all the old people thought it was The Doors. https://youtu.be/7G2-FPlvY58

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Aww I’m super glad to hear it improved your day, and you’ll be able to find it again in the future!

I get the same reaction to it, I think it’s the use of flat melancholic notes scattered throughout, such as in the refrain “I’d like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly”. For me anyway. I love that sort of upbeat but sorrowful sort of thing. It gives me intense frisson (aka aesthetic shiver, aka that chill down your spine when something hits just right).

The sound of silence covered by Pentatonix also gives me mad frisson every time I hear it. And for the same reason I think.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day 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

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day 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.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have a lot in my backyard, it's a treat to see at night. 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.

[–] Doublenut@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I had an experience like this camping out in the foothills of the Catskills. One of my favorite camping trips.

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

None that I’ve noticed

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I remember when Florida had them in large number, not like that but still maybe one every 10 feet or so on the heaviest night I've seen. It was pretty. Now I get excited if I see any at all. If I see 3 in the same night I am ecstatic.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never seen fire flies in real life I've always had to make do with embers from a fire

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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