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Please include your city/town and state, and the date of your sighting. Include as many details as you can, such as numbers of fireflies, location (rural/city/wooded area, etc), temperature, time, and so on. Thanks for helping with this project.
Below are reports from Arkansas, listed in date order, alphabetically by city.
Beaver Lake:
July 19, 2002: Bobbie Burks reports: We recently camped for two nights on Beaver Lake in northwestern Arkansas. We were delighted to be treated to firefly displays both nights. . . hundreds of them. That was the most fireflies I have seen in a long time. Not a butterfly garden in sight, but something is there to help fireflies flourish! (It certainly wasn't the cooler temperature, because it was just as hot and humid there as it is in Tyler!) They have seemingly disappeared from the Tyler, Texas, area where I live. An Englishman visiting the area was interested in knowing what they were. Evidently they are not common in England, either.
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Jonesboro:
June 11, 2002: A reader writes: I retired in June of last year from Dow Chemical Company and move from Katy, Texas, to Jonesboro, Arkansas, and that was the first thing that caught my eye. Hundreds of them in the
eveing for about a month--then no more. But I just saw them tonight. They're
back. Never saw them in Katy!
Northeast Arkansas:
August 6, 2000: A reader notes: A month ago we went on vacation to northeast
Arkansas. We went camping on the buffalo river. Every evening we
got quite a show from the fireflies.It was sweet. I have been in Texas
for about seventeen years. I grew up in Kansas City and saw fireflies every
evening in the summer. But not here. When I returned from Arkansas I got
on the internet and ask why they weren't down here. The reply that I got
(from a bug man) was that they have too many predators down south and they
wouldn't survive. That sucks. Anyway I thought I would pass that on. Good
luck.
Warren:
June 8, 2002: A reader writes: We just moved to Warren, Arkansas, population 6,000+ and we moved from League City, Texas where we rarely saw a firefly. We live on 2 acres and starting on June 6th about 2 million fireflies rose up from the ground. They start glowing around 8:00 p.m. Tonight they advanced on to our porch and we were like two small children. The temperture outside is about 82 degrees.