I remember as a kid running through the yard and catching lightning bugs left and right. It’s one of the best childhood memories I ever had. I would catch them all evening long and put them in a jar. You know the jars with lids and we had to punch holes in it, so the lightning bugs could breathe. I’m not sure exactly when it started, but at some point the lightning bugs was disappearing. It wasn’t from me catching them all, because in my youth they were tons to be found. No way one little boy like me could catch them all.

As I started learning and hearing more about global warming or climate change, I began to put two and two together. I was thinking global warming had something to do with the lightning bugs vanishing. Also, my hometown in North Georgia was growing by the minute, so I figured that had something to do with it too. We had much more light pollution in my area and figured the lightning bugs liked dark places, so they could show off their shinny hide ends. It was a sad sight to see only a few lightning bugs or fireflies in my yard. No more hundreds and hundreds of yellow glowing lights in the yard. Only a small flicker here and there.

Well the global warming has only got worse and my city has grown like never before. It would seem the lightning bugs would vanish for good and not much hope to see even a couple each evening. Well something happened and I’m not sure what, but the lightning bugs have returned! It’s been well over 10 years, since I have seen this many lightning bugs glowing through out the yard. I mean it’s an incredible sight to see! I have no explanation or theory to why they left or why they decided to come back. It’s a mystery to me. I have kept pretty close track of this over the years and somewhere the little guys got an explosion of growth, because you could not walk in my yard without running into one now. I can’t wait for the sun to go down today, so I can gaze at them once again in the huge numbers they once again have in my neighborhood.

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