I ‘borrowed’ this from The Daily Sprout because it was so fitting! You see, in August, I like to sit outside at night and watch the skies – I can sometimes glimpse a shooting star and I enjoy looking at the moon and the stars twinkling in the skies. But the fireflies which have been really taking center stage lately? Well, they’ve been putting on a sparkly show! Have you ever gotten off the couch to just sit outside in the quiet and be? It’s very healing…I highly suggest it!
From @thedailysprout: Tonight, somewhere between the tomatoes and the fence line, a sparkle will assemble itself.
That’s the actual term — a group of fireflies is called a sparkle, and it might be the most honest collective noun in the English language. They’re not flies at all, but beetles, running the most efficient light show on Earth: nearly 100% of the energy in that glow becomes light, almost none of it heat. A lightbulb should be so lucky.
Every blinking pattern you see is a conversation — each species flashes its own code, males signaling from the air, females answering from the grass.
August is their grand finale, so the show outside your window is worth the price of standing still for five minutes
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Joyful Change With Yvonne 