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Lightning bugs!! (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I grew up calling them lightning bugs, and I'm so excited to see a thread full of people calling them the same!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In German, they're Glühwürmchen ("glow worms").

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Interesting, interesting. We call the female lightning bugs here glow worms because they are wingless, but today I'm learning that is not the case for all species!

Also Glühwürmchen is a cute word.

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