Fireflies

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Editor’s note: While these insects don’t attack garden plants, they do tend to attack gardeners.

Fireflies are providing quite the light show in fields and woodlots around the Lansing area. I’m seeing thousands of them around my house at night. They are everywhere: in the trees, in the lawn and on the house. A good web site to learn more than you care to know about fireflies is http://bit.ly/fireFlies

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