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Beautiful Photo . I bets its awesome when the fireflies are buzzing at night
struth I thought that was an Ultra Scenery Render
I have never seen fireflies in Kent. When I was a kid, I saw some while wild camping in a forest in Somerset (south west England) but never in the south east. Thinking on it, they would be amazing.
I wonder if I would still hear the high pitched buzz they make when their abdomens light up - that's how we found them while I was a kid, my brother and I wanted to identify the source of the buzzing and saw fireflies for the first and only time.
Interestingly, Google seems to think they are native to North America, and we only get Glow Worms, so maybe that's what I saw.
Well thank you so much! I guess I should have told you guys I'm out of hospital and back home. Trying to get back into outpatient therapy so I can get walking again. Prognosis is optimistic, it's mostly about getting coordination/sensation back into my legs - the strength is there. I can move them and everything, just can't quite walk on them yet.
There used to be a lot of fireflies around here, even in town but I haven't seen any in years. No tall weeds anymore. Also missing are frogs, toads, and crayfish. No more open streams or ditches.
Although, the groundhog is back in the hole under the neighbor's storage building on the other side of our driveway.
wow no fireflies in the UK that is where i thought all those stories of fairies and fireflies and stuff came from over there., We have 2 different kinds in Tennessee in the USA the common ones that are yellowish/green when the light up and we have one thats area little bigger and flash light almost white . When I was little my older bother and I use to catch & fill canning jars full of them and then we sneek them into the house. eventfully they get loose and my mom would go ballistic on us..lol for days she Harp on, you would see them things flying around the house.HaHaHa, It was great being a little girl back then
yeah fireflies are something I only see in books but apparently some isolated spots in Queensland have a few according to Google
Glow worms not common either
I did see a little blue glowing scorpion once though
ours tiny and harmless
I am always amazed at the wildlife in Oz. The mammals are basically the least threatening of anywhere, and to make up for that hiccup, everything else is absolutely murderous. In one campsite toilet near Cairns there was a Golden Orb Spider in the doorway with a leg span of 3". Enough venom in that to kill our entire family, but once we knew it was there it was just about OK. We worried more about the ones we couldn't see and didn't know about.
Fairies... Well, most engineers believe absolutely in gremlins, and they have no physical existence, so the same could happen with fairies.
For me that feeling started in the early 80s and just continues...
Or to say it with Monty Python: Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause it's bugger all down here on Earth..
I've never seen an electron but I believe in them. Especially when lots of them get together and attack me.
I had an aunt that was attacked by a major hoard of them jumping down from the sky. Buggered her up really badly for 6 decades till she died of the complications.
Or, as the Cowardly Lion put it: "I do believe in ghosts, I do, I do believe in ghosts."
https://fiveminutehistory.com/the-history-of-fairies/
This from my upcoming book "How to grocery shop in the 21st century"...
I though it was a Englishmen that started that whole faerie thing. I did not no it was that far back though. .lol come to think about it I first intorduced to fairies by reading A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare We don't have fairies, but we do have fire flies.
apparently there are mushrooms in the Adelaide hills that glow too
I have never seen them
these are our glowy things, fireflies not mentioned at all
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2018/08/bioluminescent-beauties-meet-australias-sparkling-species/
Come again? Never heard of a dingo? And a lot of the marsupials are savage, too.
Dropbears... 'nuff said..
I still think grizzly bears, wolves and pumas are way scarier than anything we have down here
crocodiles and sharks can be avoided by staying away from the water
Brown Recluse Spiders, Black Widows, and for sheer scare factor, furry, jumping striped spiders that build webs between trees overnight. Try walking into one when the sunrise is in your eyes, and you come face to face with its fangs.
(Did I mention I am afraid of spiders?)
Edit: And yeah, I will not look at an item with a spider on the front picture, in the name, or in any form of the content. Won't go there. More for the rest of you. I have been known to throw a magazine across the room, it I open a page and there is a spider.
Where we live in the Appalachian mountains we have about everything and I have pictures I taken of them ..lol
Black Bears, Rattle snakes & water moccasin Snakes cotton mouths snakes. Copper Head these snakes all deadly poisonous, Brown Recuse & Black widow spiders, red scorpions, Coyote kind of like a small wolf. and Mountain Lions or Puma's which ever you want to call then and down below us about 120 miles south in Knoxville they have alligators. Yea kind of have to watch your step abound these parts lol
& like memcneil70 I an terrified of spiders even daddy long legs they for some reason make me panics
Down here in Texas we have 3 or 4 varieties of Rattlers, along with Water Moccasins/Cottonmounts and Copperheads. There are also Coral Snakes in TX but they are rarely seen. When I was much younger and in the Boy Scouts, I used to go on Rattle Snake hunts. They are good eating and no they do not taste like chicken. They have their own unique flavor. I did get bit by one once but one of the scout masters was a paramedic and had snake venmom with him. Everyone that went on the rattler hunt had to have their parents sign a waiver. Man it was fuin even if I did get bit. Have all kinds of poisonous spiders including Brown Recluse, Black Widows and Trantulas. Had little white scorpions that weren't much woprse than getting stung by a yellow jacket. Black bears,and lots of cats, Panthers, Mountain Lions Bobcats and Ocelots. I used to ahve to kill a lotr of Cyoties when I was younger,. They would get into the hen house and kill my granny's chickens. Had some bobcats that were almost tame on my grandparents farm. My grandfather would fill an old hubcap with milk and the Bobncats would come up and drink it. They were never tame enough to pet or pick up but they woudl take food from you of you tossed some their way. They alsol kept the rodent population down and never did bother my granny;'s chickens. Also have some alligators in south and east Texzas. Spiders don't bother me but I flat have a phobia of wasps. I like to ahve soiled myuself the first time I sawe a Carrozidor (giant Yellow Jacket) in Fallout New Vegas.
and where you live in Texas you properly have Chupacabra's too
Been within 20ft of a Wild Dingo. They are wild dogs, and if you know how to behave with a wild dog, they're pretty safe. Particularly in comparison to Boar, Grizzly, and cat bigger than the domestic one, Wolverine, Wolf. Then think of the danger of Hippo's, Elephants, any of the cloven hoof animals in rutting season.. They make the Australian mammals seem very benign. Shame about everything else there...
Also been within 20ft of a wild Emu in Oz, and that scared me a good deal more than the Dingo. The four of us stayed absolutely still while it looked us over before deciding we were boring. The Elk that got within 3ft of us in Jasper National Park in Canada really showed how powerful they were, and potentially dangerous, but keeping calm and quiet meant we had an experience of a lifetime.
Most spiders up here in the north(ish) around the US Great Lakes are non-scary and not particularly poisonous. Yeah, we have black widows, but in my whole considerably long life, I've never seen one in the wild except on a trip to Australia. Now Florida on the other hand has some big spiders. But again, not particularly poisonous, just mega-scary. My most memorable experiences with them revealed that after hit with the business end of a broom, they rear up on their hind legs and charge at you. Also, they make huge webs between palm trees and congregate by the hundreds mostly up in the air but you have to watch where you're walking or you'll walk into a neighborhood of them that were forced, by overcrowding, out of the prime real-estate high in the trees and had to form a 'hood at face height.
Hopefully you're not running, and are able to stop and panic when your face breaks only the first web
. Walking with your head down in a treed Florida cow pasture while dealing with your smartphone is not wise. But, those problems are out in the country though. In the big cities in Florida, most of the spiders, big or small, are permitted to live in the garage or carport to keep bugs in check but are fair game if they get into the house.
All that being said... up here, 60 miles south of Buffalo, I have a small spider that lives on the outside of my kitchen window and makes really beautiful webs several times during the year. She usually hides out in the corner and doesn't venture onto the web untl it catches a bug, then I watch with fascination as she bags her capture. A few days later she's torn down the old web and is building a new one. Fascinating. She's tiny until she's not. When her body (sans-legs) gets to be bigger than a pencil eraser I eliminate the web, her, and her eggs. But within a couple weeks another denizen has found the spot and the cycle starts all over again until the end of the season.
And GIANT KLILLER Jackalopes.
Oh yeah. When i was 7 I was going fishing with my Dad on an uncles ranch south of Dallas and came face to fang with a 6.5 foot eastern diamondback. luckily neither of us got bit and my uncle took care of it and mounted him on the wall (he had killed a few heads of cattle)
I have had runins with cottonmouths, copperheads, even saw a coral snake once which kinda freaked me out knowing how venomous they are. I an allegic to wasps/bees, so stay far away from them when I can and while I hate spiders, my biggest fear is scorpions. In 5th grade a buddy and I while walking thru the woods came upon a pile of dead logs and when he kicked it, hundreds of scorpions came crawling out. it was like a horror movie and tramatized me to this day on those nasty things.
seen a few bobcats and coyotes over the years and saw a mountain lion once when i was in Austin in westlake hills, that was freaky.
I would love to visit Australia, but could never live there with all the nasty critters you guys have running around.
I had a run in with a coral snake once, just a few years ago. Yeah, potentially nearly instantaneously deadly. No fangs, but if you let them get a grab of your finger or toe they gnaw and scrape the skin and ooze their toxin in that way. Found it in the garage. But unlike spiders, snakes of no sort are permitted in the garage. And yes it was a coral snake not a scarlet king snake "Red meet yellow, kill a fellow. Red meet black, friend of Jack."
We have quite a few predators here in Connecticut...black bear, bobcats, grey wolves (yes, I've seen them), coyotes, mountain lion (yes, they're coming back)...and even a few lynx have been spotted. Even in my moderately sized home town of 75,000, we have a very healthy and present black bear population. We love our bears and they just do their own thing. My mom is friends with the animal control officer in town and he said they have the bears tagged and monitored and a few have lived their whole lives in town. We have a couple breeding females who frequently show up on video with their cubs, which obviously means we must have at least one male in town as well. But the bears never bother anybody and the people who live here know to leave the bears alone. We have a decent amount of wooded areas and two huge wooded parks on opposite ends of town that the bears live in. But they venture out from time to time to meander across neighborhoods. We've had our trash bins unpended once (could only have been a bear), and our squirrel rehab enclosure (modified chicken coop) was broken into twice (could only have been a bear). No squirrels were harmed...the bear wanted the birdseed, lol. But those were isolated incidents that happened over about a week's time and we haven't had a problem since.
We also have a large prey animal population...tons of deer and even moose have been coming more prevalent. Which makes sence given the growing boom in the predator population.
This was in town a couple years back...the same bear still lives here. The control officers keep close tabs on them, but nobody ever actively complains about them...because we love our bears, lol.
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/bear-walks-into-bristol-liquor-store/168004/
that is nice to hear, considering we are living in their territory also. Even though I live in town there are 2 large parks and a big wooded area near me, so I see plenty of small animals like rabbits, raccoons, skunks and possums all the time with the occasional bobcat and coyote. The GF and I went to one of the lakes in the parks for a picnic last week just to get outside and saw quite a bit of wildlife running around including a deer which we never see around here.
Even though we have had a couple of coyote attacks here in the past year, I am more worried about stray dogs. I had to kill a pitbull that attacked me as i was walking to my car in my apt parking lot 2 yrs ago, freakin scary experience.
I could tell you some stories about bears..lol currently we have 2 we call them Yogi &Boo Boo they usually when they show up they come as a set. we only happen to notice them because of our home security cameras around our property
Last night my home security camera Picked up Boo Boo the smaller of the 2, This silly black bear thinks he is a dog he been seen running with some dogs around neighborhood . He shows up just be for dark and pretty much wonders & roams around the neighborhood all night until just after sun up . Boo Boo came to our property around 3 am last night where we been taking care of some very young white tail deer. and he just makes himself comfortable and lays down and take a nap on my lawn. for a couple of hours. I guess rummaging around peoples trash cans all night is exhausting.