The park near me used to have an annual firefly festival where you could explore the grounds at night and see all the fireflies lighting up the fields. They'd have little kiosks stationed on the trails with info on how to keep their population safe and their impact on the ecosystem. They'd also have a telescope set up so you can observe planets if the skies were clear enough. Unfortunately COVID shut that all down and they haven't done it since ☹️
More biodiversity, fewer monoculture lawns, less persistent pesticides. https://www.youtube.co">bt3KXoEw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfbt3KXoEw https://www.reddit.com/r/NoLawn/
Blue ghost fire flies! One of the neatest things I've ever seen. Anywho they are tiny fire flies. One of 36 species in western north carolina. Freaking magical.
We need to stop thinking of lawns as ideal yards. Plant native gardens, leave the leaves out! Insects lay eggs on rotting leaves. Let decay and cyclical growth be part of our habitat, even in cities and landscaped spaces.
When I moved from Ohio to Colorado, I thought we just didn't have them (or they all died out before I got here). Turns out I'm just almost never in the right places at the right times. We do have them. But they only light up for approx 1-2 hours and only near water sources like creeks and streams. The ones here also aren't green. They're white and blink like a flash bulb really quick, no glow. So they're also just easy to miss here.
In middle school (jesus.. 23y ago) our whole school yard would be absolutely swarming with migratory monarch butterflies. You could reach your hand above your head and there'd be a very good chance you could catch one.
Now they're talking about monarchs being down to just 5% of their population, and going extinct by 2080.
Important to note: ordinary people also killed them, by growing monoculture lawns using lots of chemicals and raking up all the dead leaves. This is an issue where individual choices matter.
Monoculture lawns are one of the biggest not-really-talked-about environmental issues of our time. However, fireflies actually thrive in the grass monoculture chosen by most Americans. The main cause of the firefly extinction is increased use of pesticides.
We might not deserve them but we should do all we can to keep them. I don't live in a country that even has fireflies, but I do my best to help local insects.
If this movie upset you, don't worry. I got a nice movie for you to help cleanse those negative feelings and make you feel good again. It's got a bunch of bunnies in it and is called "Watership Down."
My family wanted to watch this last sat. We try to enjoy films with our teen girl(pulling teeth to get it to happen). She has been a Studio Ghibli fan for most of her life. I warned them. I said we should watch the wild robot (out on streaming), I would prefer not to see it again. They insisted. My wife was sobbing, my daughter kept crying into my shoulder and holding my hand. After I was pointing out little things they missed, e.g. what is in the candy box in the beginning, More crying.
You can still buy the candy tin. I buy them every now and again for my kids. Ive been laying the groundwork for when they are ready to watch it. When we do, i will add the candy tin to the mix and some onigiri as snacks. There will be tears. Trauma bonding.
Had to go back and show her the little pieces that fell out in the beginning of the film. Next up, "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father." Today's trauma bonding lesson is "rage crying."
Seems easier to just instantly send them off to war. No training even. Can’t walk without a cane? Off you go. Plenty more behind em if they barely survive
I have not heard of it......... I am a USN Veteran of 20+ years, but what I have seen, on the comments, it is a Real Tear-Jerker. Question, should " I " watch it before my family??
It is the best movie I will never watch again. Absolutely fantastic film and I do not regret watching it, 10/10. But it is one of those things you will only ever want to see a singular time.
As a piece of art is it amazing. The storytelling and animations are absolutely top tier. But the message it conveys is, I think, nothing a veteran doesn’t know or has experienced. What these kinds of movies do, is enrich peoples lives: you wise up a bit for how shit life can be sometimes. And that can make you stronger. But since you already have this sort of experience this might just be exposing yourself to a lot of misery for nothing. Still, one of the best movies ever made.
DuncanHillsCoffee4Life
The park near me used to have an annual firefly festival where you could explore the grounds at night and see all the fireflies lighting up the fields. They'd have little kiosks stationed on the trails with info on how to keep their population safe and their impact on the ecosystem. They'd also have a telescope set up so you can observe planets if the skies were clear enough. Unfortunately COVID shut that all down and they haven't done it since ☹️
TattoosAndTENS
How do we help to breed them
skyfishgur
let them out you bastard!
ZebAsiz
KhajiitIsPleased
Man I really hope this is for rehabilitation purposes and not one of those "buy this baby turtle in a cup" style pet stores
Trellyman
I want to know more
UnsweetenedAlmond
Do you want to know more ?
Trellyman
I want fireflies, I need to know what the song was about.
TupacAintDead
Can someone turn those into upvotes?
GullahGullahIslander
Went from 'meh' to 'WOW' at the flip of a switch
kerrigan778
This would make such a good upvote gif
OnlyByMoonlight
LutraLazuli
Last time I saw fire flies was in the summer of '94, a few months before we moved
MightyIink
I hear they only last for 1 season...
iamlegendinjapan
I miss seeing them after moving away from the south
ShadeMeadowsArt
BEAUTIFUL
LebistusReticulatis
Christmas lights! Environment friendly
Bludabeagle
The plant is a ginkgo tree..... not sure if necessary for fireflies, but allows them to 'wander'.
LenzKist74
Oh, tiny lanterns in the night,
Flickering with your golden light,
You dance through air, so free, so spry,
A sparkling wonder in the sky.
Your gentle glow, a summer's hum,
How can one be glum,
When the sun shines out of your bum?
A fleeting joy, a fleeting spark,
Lighting up the velvet dark,
Nature’s whimsy, glowing bright,
A living star in the quiet night.
So here's to you, dear firefly,
A marvel seen with every eye,
A playful wink, a gleeful cheer,
Nature's tiny chandelier.
FellaWithUmbrella
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Hang it over a solar farm at night
SirNameless
I wonder why they have so many fireflies. Can't be for reptile food, fireflies are toxic to them.
iguessihaveto
I'm not sure they're fireflies, at least not the ones I've seen in the northeast US. They don't look right. Maybe silkworms or something?
Twrecks123
We’ve killed so many fireflies. They may be breeding them?
Vebrandsson
I am game for this, I miss seeing swarms if these little simple wonders. How to I help breed more of them?
jammer909
I did not know that.
TheFastpaws
You don't see them around here anymore sadly.
casbott
kermitopus
How do Reavers clean their spears? Put them through the Wash.
owlowl
what are they eating ?
swedeonamoose
I could not believe my eyes :O
BonafideHomicide
When 10 million fireflies...
jaxonwithanx
That song describes an encounter with a manifestation of an eldritch entity, change my mind.
swedeonamoose
Tbh it reminded me of that one X-files episode with the bugs in the deep woods
KiwiGameDev
Dude heard “kept them in a jar” and thought “a jar? Rookie numbers”
Markodgt
Second I read your comment I heard in my head "da door do doo" +1
IAmZephyre
Lit up the world as I fell asleep...
Wright2k
They filled the open air.
L4dead2
And left tear drops everywhere
irrelevantcriticism
I'd like to make myself believe
PurpleMagnolia
Oooohhhh... sorry the next line is "you'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare." Thank you for playing though.
Lyconous
Man, so this is why there were so few fireflies this summer
lenkearney1
So how do we help get more fireflies?
The701
More biodiversity, fewer monoculture lawns, less persistent pesticides. https://www.youtube.co">bt3KXoEw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfbt3KXoEw https://www.reddit.com/r/NoLawn/
somethingstupidandclever
@op are those the blue ghosts?
Unpossible
Aren't blue ghosts ... umm ... blue?
somethingstupidandclever
When you see them in the woods yes. But really it's greenish yellow. Super rare only found in small sections of southern Appalachians
Unpossible
So, you're saying that in the wild they're blue, but in plastic cups they're they're green?
somethingstupidandclever
They just appear blue in the woods at night. But upon further investigation they are sort of green
Fulustreka
What is it?
somethingstupidandclever
Blue ghost fire flies! One of the neatest things I've ever seen. Anywho they are tiny fire flies. One of 36 species in western north carolina. Freaking magical.
Fulustreka
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
ruint
"Why do fireflies have to die so soon?"
bassaro
jammer909
'cause Studio Ghibli can make a sequel.
imredheaded
whyd you have to do that :(
ruint
to not forget
Psionickitten
Lightning bugs!!
romylys6514
Fireflies! Hi from the upper midwest.
Raenon
This is what I called them growing up.
I think that firefly is probably a better name, the alliteration, fewer syllables... but I will always think lightning bug first.
Psionickitten
Yeah. It's ok to have multiple colloquial names, but I wanted to represent!
iatezola
Totally. But I’ve lived too long now in a place where they call them fireflies. Though they’re neither flies nor bugs
naught101
Fine then, bioluminescent ass beetles
tschallacka
Ass?
MadamPuddifoot
Not fire nor lightning... All kinds of incorrect names
UhSadHJ84
To see them mating is out of this world. Their population is down so low around me these days it makes me sad
Psionickitten
Humans are at fault for their declining populations. Fucking over the climate of the world.
UhSadHJ84
Indeed we are
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Is this where all the fireflies went? This guy is hoarding them?
somethingsomethingmcbob
We need to stop thinking of lawns as ideal yards. Plant native gardens, leave the leaves out! Insects lay eggs on rotting leaves. Let decay and cyclical growth be part of our habitat, even in cities and landscaped spaces.
delusionaldaydreams
But think about the HOAs! (Yes, raging sarcasm).
SoulStoneSeeker
mosquito control, did that. Look it up
BahbusTheGreat
When I moved from Ohio to Colorado, I thought we just didn't have them (or they all died out before I got here). Turns out I'm just almost never in the right places at the right times. We do have them. But they only light up for approx 1-2 hours and only near water sources like creeks and streams. The ones here also aren't green. They're white and blink like a flash bulb really quick, no glow. So they're also just easy to miss here.
Imsorrythatwasinappropriate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTYvqYfQmts
oilyanaldischarge
Thank you, beautiful song!+1
dwilson0725
We have a thriving population in Ohio.
SjyiN
Lets call newyork and let em know
bdnash3
It's going to take a lot more than that for me to consider visiting Ohio
LateNightBunnyParty
I haven't seen many over the last few years, and my yard used to be FILLED with them in the summer.
cropduster5000
Insect populations in general are not doing so good these days :/
shitheadtookmyname
I haven't seen a firefly in years. I saw them all the time as a kid. 35 years in between
arumunus
In middle school (jesus.. 23y ago) our whole school yard would be absolutely swarming with migratory monarch butterflies. You could reach your hand above your head and there'd be a very good chance you could catch one.
Now they're talking about monarchs being down to just 5% of their population, and going extinct by 2080.
LateNightBunnyParty
We're right in the monarch migratory path too, and I barely see any of them any more either.
GuysJustWannaFish
Unfortunately no. CEOs killed them so they could sell us lights.
BeaverOnFire
Oh thank goodness. I was worried about the CEOs profit margins.
L4t3xs
Mayfly10
Important to note: ordinary people also killed them, by growing monoculture lawns using lots of chemicals and raking up all the dead leaves. This is an issue where individual choices matter.
DirectorFury
Monoculture lawns are one of the biggest not-really-talked-about environmental issues of our time. However, fireflies actually thrive in the grass monoculture chosen by most Americans. The main cause of the firefly extinction is increased use of pesticides.
naomiMoonBeast
Yeah honestly I don't think we deserve fireflies anymore we were not the kindest to them
Mayfly10
We might not deserve them but we should do all we can to keep them. I don't live in a country that even has fireflies, but I do my best to help local insects.
GuysJustWannaFish
And who do you think sells us the lawn and the chemicals and the "gotta have it" mentality?
CocoPuppyFlyer
Time to use our own brains. You have all the information right there at your fingertips to make better decisions.
Dednotsleeping82
Its a lot of things
CocoPuppyFlyer
And light pollution is very disruptive as it interferes with the fireflies' bioluminescent communication essential for mating.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
TsubakiTragic
don't do that!!!
imgonnaralph
Oh no,
UnicornSausage
No.. No...
DannyJammy
AyatollahBahloni
Fuck this shit, I didn't need to be depressed tonight
ElbowDeepinAEldritchHorror
His hands bending back to grab hers?
iBoulderDash
If this movie upset you, don't worry. I got a nice movie for you to help cleanse those negative feelings and make you feel good again. It's got a bunch of bunnies in it and is called "Watership Down."
implosion3
Then watch Requiem for a dream after that.. total feel good
ExceptFluffyDuck
Close the evening with a nice and romantic Betty Blue.
gilarelli
Pro tip: this movie is NOT a Christmas movie. At all.
jammer909
Well, it isn't Die Hard. Although, there was certainly a lot of dying going on.
pettingmycatwhileipoo
Movie name???? For science?>
uplookdont
Grave of the fireflies
AnonymousPandaBear
Dot [Deep movie]
kermitopus
My family wanted to watch this last sat. We try to enjoy films with our teen girl(pulling teeth to get it to happen). She has been a Studio Ghibli fan for most of her life. I warned them. I said we should watch the wild robot (out on streaming), I would prefer not to see it again. They insisted. My wife was sobbing, my daughter kept crying into my shoulder and holding my hand. After I was pointing out little things they missed, e.g. what is in the candy box in the beginning, More crying.
robingal1
Wild Robot was good. I looooved the visual storytelling; too few movies invest the imagination and time.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
You can still buy the candy tin. I buy them every now and again for my kids. Ive been laying the groundwork for when they are ready to watch it. When we do, i will add the candy tin to the mix and some onigiri as snacks. There will be tears. Trauma bonding.
kermitopus
Had to go back and show her the little pieces that fell out in the beginning of the film. Next up, "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father." Today's trauma bonding lesson is "rage crying."
ruint
The most heartbreaking film ever made.
'Grave of the fireflies' should be mandatory viewing for anyone who mistakenly thinks war is a good idea.
mohavewolfpup
Seems easier to just instantly send them off to war. No training even. Can’t walk without a cane? Off you go. Plenty more behind em if they barely survive
Bludabeagle
I have not heard of it......... I am a USN Veteran of 20+ years, but what I have seen, on the comments, it is a Real Tear-Jerker. Question, should " I " watch it before my family??
EndocrineResearcher
It is the best movie I will never watch again. Absolutely fantastic film and I do not regret watching it, 10/10. But it is one of those things you will only ever want to see a singular time.
Bimmie
As a piece of art is it amazing. The storytelling and animations are absolutely top tier. But the message it conveys is, I think, nothing a veteran doesn’t know or has experienced. What these kinds of movies do, is enrich peoples lives: you wise up a bit for how shit life can be sometimes. And that can make you stronger. But since you already have this sort of experience this might just be exposing yourself to a lot of misery for nothing. Still, one of the best movies ever made.
implosion3
No.. oh god no, don't do that. Unless your family consists of adults desiring to feel morbidly depressed
ruint
nope nope nope.
You'd have to watch it twice if you did that & not sure it's much of a family movie.
Bludabeagle
Thanks 'ruint'.... I did look it up on 'Wikipedia'.... and I KNOW da history of That part of da War.
ruint
It isn't a war movie, it's a movie about war orphans, and it is absolutely soul destroying.