Memorial Day might mark the unofficial start of summer, but it isn’t real for me until I see groups of fireflies or lightning bugs. As a kid, chasing the gentle glowing bugs flying in seemingly random bobbing path was the next activity to prolong time outside.
Just as darkness started to fall and make batted balls or flying frisbees too hard to see and catch, along would come the green glowing orbs. That would add at least another 30 minutes of outside play to the day, catching and releasing them out of a jar.
Fireflies typically appear in Southwest Ohio in early June, but it can depend on the weather and temperature. I’m sure that Bill Felker of Poor Will’s Almanac has precise dates of the insect’s first appearance each season near Yellow Springs. I don’t have that, just a recollection of a now deleted text I sent to my daughter about seeing the first one of the season in early May, and how it seemed really early.
Read the complete article here: Fireflies typically appear in SW Ohio in early June, but it can depend on weather, temps
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