[NatureNS] Fireflies in June?

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br clear=3D"none"&gt;&amp;nbsp; 31 May 2011 - 1blinking flyby&lt;br clear=3D"n
I see a few (very few) on warm nights. Open space hemmed in by trees, 
ground level to a few metres up. It's a few years since we saw them 
reliably in some numbers.

There could be lots of fireflies around of the non-blinking types, but 
I'm not familiar enough with them to ID.

Doug Linzey
Arlington, Kings Co.


On 6/30/2020 1:46 PM, Carmel Smith wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was glad to see I'm not the only one appreciating fireflies!
>
> Here I've been seeing them since early June, and I've noted in 20 
> years here that June is the busiest month for them at this spot. In 
> July they tend to taper off. So it could be both species I'm seeing 
> here. About 10 years ago there were so many in the meadow it was like 
> a starry sky. This year I'm seeing quite a few, some flying flashing, 
> some perched and flashing or just emitting a glow...
>
> Carmel Smith
> Midville Branch, Lun. County
>
> On Monday, June 8, 2020, 12:38:24 p.m. ADT, Frederick W. Schueler 
> <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Here's what I've got from Bishops Mills, Ontario - these are first
> records of blinking while doing auditory monitoring at home.
> You can see there's a great variation in when they first are seen -
> there haven't been any yet this year.
>
>   DAY MON YEAR -  REMARKS
>   15 May 1998 - 1st seen this yr
>   31 May 1999 - flying,1st blinks of yr,shower of rain began@2330h 
> <mailto:began@2330h>
>   14 June 2000 - many seen in our fields&acrCoRd18
>   02 June 2001 - few blinking
>   02 July 2002 - few blinking
>   12 June 2003 - few blinking,fullMoon
>   06 June 2004 - few blinking,flying ones buffeted by the wind
>   11 June 2005 - few blinking
>   02 June 2006 - blinking in flight thru trees
>   30 May 2007 - few blinking,1st of yr
>   26 May 2008 - 1inWeirsHouseRedMaple,first seen this year
>   30 May 2009 - few blinks
>   19 May 2010 - few blinking in trees E of CoRd18
>   31 May 2011 - 1blinking flyby
>   18 May 2012 - few blinking in Acer negundo behind houses
>   28 May 2013 - few blinking in NegundoGrove
>   07 June 2014 - few blinking amg tops of trees
>   26 May 2015 - a few blinking
>   24 May 2016 - few blinks
>   10 Jun 2017 - first few blinks of the year
>   27 May 2018 - 1 blinking thru trees@WeirsHouse <mailto:trees@WeirsHouse>
>   12 Jun 2019 - 1 blinking flyby
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>           Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
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> 4 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
>   on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain  44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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