How Do You Call Lampyridae?

[Kaios]

Lightning Bug

[Ysh]

You can enumerate these states? I think all names for these are in common usage. I have lived in three state and I hear the men calling them these. Sometimes glowworm as well.

Oklahoma, Colorado, New York, Hawaii, Florida

specifically:

Lawton Oklahoma + Elgin Oklahoma, Watertown New York + New York City, Honolulu Hawaii, Miami Florida + Crestview Florida and Colorado Springs + Denver colorado

Very strange to me. I have lived in some Indiana, New Jersey, and Connecticut and I have hear the men say these. New York is close state to these. Maybe Watertown is too northern to get this insect?

[Archiplex]

You can enumerate these states? I think all names for these are in common usage. I have lived in three state and I hear the men calling them these. Sometimes glowworm as well.

Oklahoma, Colorado, New York, Hawaii, Florida

specifically:

Lawton Oklahoma + Elgin Oklahoma, Watertown New York + New York City, Honolulu Hawaii, Miami Florida + Crestview Florida and Colorado Springs + Denver colorado

Very strange to me. I have lived in some Indiana, New Jersey, and Connecticut and I have hear the men say these. New York is close state to these. Maybe Watertown is too northern to get this insect?

Yeah, watertown i never really saw any

Plenty down here in oklahoma though

[Ysh]

Oklahoma, Colorado, New York, Hawaii, Florida

specifically:

Lawton Oklahoma + Elgin Oklahoma, Watertown New York + New York City, Honolulu Hawaii, Miami Florida + Crestview Florida and Colorado Springs + Denver colorado

Very strange to me. I have lived in some Indiana, New Jersey, and Connecticut and I have hear the men say these. New York is close state to these. Maybe Watertown is too northern to get this insect?

Yeah, watertown i never really saw any

Plenty down here in oklahoma though

I do not trust states shaped as meat cleaver to make this decisions.

[MagicManICT]

My family is from the South (Texas and Tennassee and later Oklahoma), and I grew up in Midwest US, and I've heard both firefly and lightning bug, but the latter more prominently. I've always preferred firefly because it was easier to say.

[Hasta]

That's a светлячок. I guess "lightie" or "lighty" or "light bug" are the most accurate translations.

[Potjeh]

Svjetlac.

[boreial]

Having lived in California, Arizona, Oregon, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, New York and Maryland, I have heard all 3 titles for this common insect, Yet I mainly refer to them by what I was taught growing up in Northern California, and that is by Firefly.

[vatas]

Finnish word for Lampyridae is "kiiltomato" which translates into "gleaming worm." Like "firefly" this designation suffers from the fact that Lampyridae are in fact beetles.

[Burinn]

I can't believe they cancelled firefly's namesake, Firefly:




It was a pretty good show.