Among the delights of a summer night around my place are the flashing, flying lightning bugs. Or, if you prefer a different terminology, the fireflies.
Mark Twain famously said, “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” And that is the only major literary reference I know of based on this un assuming little bug.
Lightning bugs are a type of beetle and there are some 2,000 species in the world. Most all are nocturnal, but a few are active in daylight.
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