fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk
As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like youāve got friendly little bugs that glow in the darkā¦.. b r uh
in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho theyāre clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.
By āreach outā thatās meant quite literallyāyou just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if youāre just walking or standing outside while theyāre active you have to shoo them off you because theyāll just. Sit on you.
Theyāre harmless and very pretty and itās always a treat to see because theyāre out for a relatively short time each year.
