More fireflies

They're flashing from ground level to canopy again this evening. Magical.I poked around to see if I could find a decent image to share, with no luck (either highly enhanced images or not very good ones). Certainly my camera(s) can't do justice to the biological flashing in the dark, programmed by...

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Fireflies

It's not easy to get photos of fireflies, but just imagine their flashing from ground level to canopy.We've been treated to evening displays for days now. Lovely, and unexpected.Normally, we'd have sucessional waves, from ground to canopy over weeks, not days - so it's a treat to see the night sky...

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Nocturnal symphony and fireflies!

At home in the Southeast after a wonderful trip to Oregon, visiting fabulous gardens during the Garden Bloggers Fling, and having a week prior to explore some of the mountains and the coast -- what's striking me this evening (as I've started looking through my MANY photos of gardens and natural areas) are the night sounds this evening -- out the open windows.It was quite warm here today, but we're...

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Fireflies

It's always a joy to see fireflies -- here in the Carolinas, it's June when we see most of them.  I don't know that much about fireflies -- just that the males flash to attract mates; the periodicity is meaningful; and different species flash at ground level, mid-level, and up in the canopy.We had a colleague years ago who studied them in the Smokies. He'd head off in June to lie on the forest...

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A firefly June

We've seen almost as many fireflies this year than we used to see in the summers we spent as (young) researchers near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, many years ago.They're flashing again tonight, at all canopy levels.  It's probably the tail end of the mating season; they're definitely not as as abundant as earlier in June.  Fireflies are a seasonal component of living in the eastern U.S....

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