Where have All The Lightning Bugs gone? And Why so many lady bigs?  

Those are more than likely not lady bugs. They are probably Japanese beetles. Less dots than a ladybug. These invade homes and hibernate throuigh the winter in houses and or garages. Here in Minnesota we still have a lot of lightening bugs but not as many as years past. Maybe the japanese beetles are eating the lightening bugs.
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Here in Illinois we still have lightning bugs, but I have noticed that there are more of them in towns that have more open fields and wildlife. I too remember seeing lots of them all over the place on warm summer nights when I was younger. As for the lady bugs...many people order them for their gardens to eat aphids and then end up with half of them in their homes. I've seen more of the orange ones than the pretty red ones I grew up with. The orange ones are called Asian lady beetles and love to get indoors.

You know you are right. There used to be way more lighting bugs years ago. I remember running outside when I was a little girl and thinking they were "tinkerbells" and other little fairies. It was always so magical!

My boys used to catch them in my cannnig jars. but that was a few years ago too. Now you've made me wonder what's happened to them all.

I must add though that the number of ladybugs in my area has not increased very much. I don't mind them anyway. They are great garden friends.

I have wondered the same thing. I do know that they are not ladybugs, they are a type of beetle. Our newspaper told had an article about it when they started infesting our homes. If you kill them they have a terrible odor. We see very few lightening bugs at all anymore. We are in Ohio. Not sure where they went.

Lady Bugs = Lady Birds?

Well I've never seen a lightening bug or at least that I am aware of. I'd prefer seeing more lady bugs, over here recently there's been a new type which are bigger and they eat the ones my wife and I like.

Horrible things...
~Joey

we have never had lightning bugs in our state, but that sucks that they are disappearing. I am actually from PA! So when I was little they were every where.

What part of Pennsylvannia are you from,

We have lightning bugs here. Every night before I go to sleep I gaze out the window to watch them dancing in the air. Love to watch them. We have seen ladybugs too.

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Well, I am not sure what happened to them exactly but I would agree that they are very rare today. Maybe the lady bugs really ate them somehow.

I used to love to catch lightning bugs when I was a child, we would put them in a jar with some grass, and put holes in the lid. Put them on our dresser and watch them all night. I still have quit a few lightning bugs here in Arkansas, Me and my granddaughter try to catch them every now and then. But it is hardrer and harder to catch them. And we have lady bugs like cray too. I have the red ones and also the orange ones.