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Where I live, the fireflies only seem to appear for an hour every night during the first three weeks of July. After that, I don’t know where they go. <\/p>\n

Fireflies are the most saintly bugs. I am filled with awe and feel lucky each time I see them. How can such amazing creatures exist? <\/p>\n

The other night, the Chattering boys happened to be together, staring into the screen of a computer at the moment I noticed the fireflies. “Get off the computer! Get out with the fireflies!” When they didn’t seem to hear me the first time, I became a little hysterical. <\/p>\n

“Okay<\/em>, Mom!” They sort of stomped out. Then they themselves fell into the coming darkness of the street outside. And they ran with the fireflies. I could hear their laughter, their call for jars to hold the fire in for a time. We punched holes in the tops. We looked. Then we let them all go. <\/p>\n

The Chatterings are nine and twelve years old. Cute little boys. How many more summers will we have moments like this?<\/p>\n

There are more links online for a band called Firefly<\/a> than there are educational links on how fireflies work<\/a>. Here’s information on bioluminescence <\/a>generally. The children’s book “Sam and the Firefly” <\/a>doesn’t quite capture the whole feeling of a firefly’s life, and it becomes a morality play at the end, but I remember being quite fascinated with the story when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

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