This is What Happens When Colorful Bugs Excite People

Beautiful Fireflies Will Make You Want to visit them year after year

File: Fireflies, Georgia, US.jpg Description English: Fireflies in south Georgia, U.S., at the Butler Island Plantation. This is an 8-second exposure, with some fireflies flashing five or six times in that period. (The horizontal one above the building is an airplane.) Author Jud McCranie This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fireflies,_Georgia,_US.jpg

Introduction

I am grateful to Sahil Patel for his insightful article, ‘Exploring the Magic of Fireflies’, and the prompt he shared to inspire more articles. His prompt, ‘Picture a calm field one summer night, with fireflies making the dark sky glow. Write about how these little bugs light up the night, turning it into a magical scene, and think about how amazing and unique it feels to see them flickering in the quiet evening, distilled into two evocative words: ‘Twinkling Nights. ‘I also want to acknowledge other writers’ contributions who have shared their unique perspectives on the theme.

First experience

As a young child (between the ages of eight and ten), I remember my first encounter with these bugs that would light up the night sky. These bugs were not going to win any beauty contest any time soon. We lived in the country in Ohio, and when it got dark outside, it was pitch black.

You had to have a flashlight to know where you were going. We were far from a big city, so the opportunity for a town to light up the sky was not happening.