How Fireflies and Lightning Bugs Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Whether called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glow worms, the tiny, bioluminescent bugs that light up the evening are universally beloved. Which makes their sudden and swift decline very distressing. Listen to find out how you – YOU – can save the firefly.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant over there and it's just the two of us.
0:48.3	And we are here today to present you Stuff You Should Know.
0:52.6	About Fireflies and Lightning Bugs, which are pretty much one in the same.
0:58.7	I assume you're a Firefly guy, right?
1:01.7	I'm both I vacillate.
1:03.4	I'm a vacillator.
1:06.2	Really?
1:07.5	I'll say it again, I vacillate.
1:11.2	That's weird.
1:12.0	I don't know many people that kind of interchange these.
1:15.4	Well, I grew up in Toledo.
1:17.8	Yeah.
1:18.2	And I think that's where I picked up Lightning Bug and then down here in the South.
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