I haven’t been out much in the evening or night this summer, so I can’t speak to the totality of lightning bugs, but I saw a few in June. I see bees, but we’ve been [slaughtering](https://archive.ph/sNxga) bees [wholesale](https://archive.ph/VJ1sf) for decades now.
Kill all wild bees and no one can grow backyard gardens. They have to get “food” from megacorporations.
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I live in a semi-rural areas with large abandonned farmlands, so large zones with no pesticides.
Lots of bees, bumblebees and wasps. Several wasps nests in ornamental crops around here ( almost no pesticide used. Costumers don't want plants they need to spray with chemicals. ).
They will recolonize easily as long as there remains large areas that don't get drenched in pesticides.
Lighthning bugs only live where there is no artificial light. They have massively receeded over the past 75 years. I have only seen them away from roads in rural areas and natural forests.
Kill all wild bees and no one can grow backyard gardens. They have to get “food” from megacorporations.
Lots of bees, bumblebees and wasps. Several wasps nests in ornamental crops around here ( almost no pesticide used. Costumers don't want plants they need to spray with chemicals. ).
They will recolonize easily as long as there remains large areas that don't get drenched in pesticides.
Lighthning bugs only live where there is no artificial light. They have massively receeded over the past 75 years. I have only seen them away from roads in rural areas and natural forests.
There are probably some goverment regulations that force them to do so.