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Thread #111452   Message #2347705
Posted By: gnu
23-May-08 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anyone know about GlowBugs? (USA)
Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know about GlowBugs? (USA)
A few years ago, I was sleeping on the screened-in porch of my camp as it was stille about 35C and very humid at 10PM. The lawn is about 25m. Then there is a baskwash (slough) about 25m wide, and a rise and fall to the riverbank about 25m wide.

It was on the new moon and there was could cover when I was awakened at about midnight by a loud snort. A moose was about ten feet from the porch and I thought it was dawn or a dream because I could see the moose very well. It was fireflies from the ground to near the tree tops. I stayed up for a couple of hours and watched bats as I have never seen before. And a great horned owl that made two appearences (very unfortunate for two rabbits).

Oh... the moose was a young bull and he munched on the clover on the lawn for about twenty minutes before I HAD to go for a, ah, er, um, quick walk.