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- How to Attract Lightning Bugs to Your YardIf you've ever caught lightning bugs as a kid, you know a warm summer evening just isn't the same without them! Learn what these little showoffs are really flashing about and what you can do to invite them to take up residence in your yard.
Lightning Bugs Are MagicalHave you ever heard of lightning bugs? Some parts of the country call them fireflies and watch their magical dance each evening.
On a Budget: Child's Lightning Bug Halloween CostumeSpend time with your family and save money on your little one's costume.- Caring for Lightning BugsLightning bugs are summer beetles that flash their abdomens in warm weather. Use care when handling these gentle creatures.
Lightning Bug Facts: Fiction and FunSouthern Minnesota had an especially late and moist spring in 2008, and the lightning bugs were out in droves every evening.- How to Create Your Own Lightning Bug Jar CraftLearn how to make a colorful craft to safely hold your lightning bugs. This article tells you how.
- Why Do Lightning Bugs (or Fireflies) Glow?The pulse of light from a lightning bug is primarily sexual, but not exclusively.
Where Did Summer Go?A short poem to celebrate loving and losing the summer season.- Little StarHaiku poem
An Overdue Apology to the Lightning Bugs of My YouthThis is a poem apologizing for the cruel things I did to lightning bugs as a child.
Lightning BugsA poem about being too harsh with a fragile love.
Idiosyncrasies of ParadiseEpicurean summers with Lapiz Lazuli skies, Youth prayers in rocking chairs with Heterochromatic eyes- Lightning BugsHaiku about lightning bugs.
- Chasing FirefliesRemembering childhood evenings of chasing and sometimes capturing fireflies, or "lightning bugs" as we called them.
Lightning BugsA short rhyming poem about summer nights.- Lightning Bugspoetry
- Reflections: Appreciating the Little Things in LifeExplains the little things that people do for one another as well as the little life that this planet shares with us.
- Summer in PoetrySummer is a time for fun and makes a good subject for a poem. So here is my poem about summer.
- Summers with MamaMy favorite summer playground during my grade school years was Mama's house. I'd ride the train by myself the one hundred and fifty miles to the small West Texas town where Mama lived.
- "Night Thoughts"poem
- Savior of the NightA poem