Do you know if fireflies only appear in specific seasons?
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While fireflies are around all year round in one form or another, the period in which they are actually flashing and displaying is usually pretty limited.  Depending on what part of the country you're in, that period may be longer or shorter.\n\nUp here in Canada where I am, there's usually only one or two weeks a year in mid to late June that fireflies are visible at all.
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It really depends on where you are.  For northernly latitudes, Ursa Major (big dipper), Ursa Minor (little dipper), and Cassiopeia are generally visible on any night of the year.
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I enjoy Firefly immensely. I watched the episode you were reffering to, and it make me happy for Inara.\n\nI tend more on the straight side of bisexuality, so I think of Inara as much like myself. Usually with men, but occasionally finding that a woman like the gov't official in that episode really makes you happy.\n\n:D
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BETWEEN 2-4 MORE SEASONS
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4 seasons to a year.  A season in the common sense is defeind by tepreature.  but a season in the technical sense is defined by the earth's tilt relative to your hemisphere.  They usually don't match; spring and fall are often too short.\n\nThe equinoxi are at June 21 and December 21; they mark the start of winter and summer in the northern hemisphere.  They are reversed in the southern hemisphere.  SPring and fall are halfway in between.
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of course there will. the season just changed so another season will come on. Of course there will be. It happens every year.
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Not all light producing fireflies come out in the day, so if you intend on catching the little bugs while the sun is shining, you probably won't get the luxury of enjoying their light at night.  Try looking out for flashing lights in the sky (males) and flashing lights on vegetation (females).\n\nOh yes, and if you do bring a torch along, remember to turn it off.  An additional light source interferes with the light signals that males produce to attract females.  yearh, hunt for them on a moonless night too.
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Fireflies produce a chemical substance called luciferase that reacts with the oxygen in the air to give off light.  When they let air into their abdomen it glows.  They glow for two reasons.  To attract mates, and to attract other tasty bugs for food.  Depending on the species, fireflies can serve as good thermometers.  They flicker on and off at different rates depending on how cold it is.  By the way, I'm not southern and I usually call them lightning bugs and I don't usually kill them because they probably eat mosquitos...I hate mosquitos.
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I have often seen them. The moon light will show upper atmospheric pollution that may be caused by large fires,this was a banner year for brush fires.  As I write a large Volcano in Italy is spewing ash. In short anything that would give off a significant amount of pollution.  if you remember the date it was, go to the library and research the newspapers for calamities on that date. A fine mist can magnify the moons light.  I remember seeing pollution rainbows from the oil wells that were set burning in freeing Kuwait from Iraq.
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Oh Frak.\n\nI forgot. I'm gonna go buy the DVDs today. I wish I had remembered yesterday.\n\nHere's the links to other great Firefly/Serenity info (including info on a possible season 2)
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There are also species of fireflies that mimic the flashing patterns of other species - when an unsuspecting lightning bug arrives expecting to mate - the mimic kills and devours it.\n\nThe actual mechanism for producing the bioluminescence is a chemical known as luciferin. This is a generic name for the light-emitting pigments found in several organisms. There are several specific types of luciferin. When a firefly wishes to flash, it activates nerves that introduce luciferin into specialized cells. There, in the presence of the enzyme luciferase, luciferin converts to oxyluciferin and cool light.
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Aurora are not seasonal.  You see them better in winter perhaps because the sky is clearer and if you live VERY far north because the sky is darker (sun does not dip as low below the horizon in summer as you go closer to the pole). \n\nAurora come from big streams of solar protons, and these events don't care if it is summer, fall, winter or spring. If anything, they might be brighter in summer, since the magnetic pole you are near will have a more direct path to the sun.\n\nI bet there are Aurora watching websites with recommendations, but you should just need a large proton flux and dark, clear skies.\n\nYou can look at solar activity at the source website below to decide if it is a good time for aurora spotting.\n\nI also found this page.  It is meant for Western Canada, but the hints about Kp index (available on the spaceweather site) should still work wherever you are!
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Yes.  Haven't you noticed there are less flies in winter?  Mosquitoes lava needs water to develop so you get tons of mozzies after a good rain.  Bettles live in the ground until summer brings them up to the surface.  Its all about the seasons, insect life cycles and food availability.\n\nGood luck with you assignment.
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CLASSIFICATION\nLightning Bugs are the same as Fireflies. They are members of a particular family of the Beetle Order. The Firefly Family is technically known as the Lampyridae. \n\n\nWHAT DO LIGHTNING BUGS EAT?\n\nLightning Bug larva\n\n \nLightning Bug larvae live on the ground, under bark, and in moist swampy places. They eat earthworms, snails and slugs, plus they may scavenge certain small dead animals and other organic material . They have been seen following slime trails to their victims. Lightning Bug larvae, one of which is shown at the right, have sickle-shaped mandibles with which they can inject a kind of chemical that paralyzes their prey and helps digest it. Several larvae have been seen attacking large prey together.\n\nAdult Lightning Bugs, who can live for several months, probably feed on plant nectar. A few adult Lightning Bug species practice an especially tricky kind of cannibalism. Already-mated females emit flashes similar to the female responses to male Lightning Bugs of other species. When the male of the other species lands, the female emitting the false flashes pounces on the poor male and eats him!
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County and State Fairs are ussually always in the Fall.Most of them that I know of are in September.The State ussually has the County Fairs,and then the State Fair after,if my memory recalls.
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St. Elmos Fire. Sometimes lighting will travel in ball form.\n\nSailors back in the old days used to see this happen a lot.
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Weight will vary with different species of lightning bugs/fireflies as they range in size from 1/5 of an inch to 1 inch.