document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); I have seen them in lower Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona in the summer. I don't know WHY there are no fireflies in Oregon, but I do know that they only occur east of, say, mid-Kansas. georgia are they available this itme of year? We haven't had a lot of mosquitoes this year, at least not yet, but we seem to have an abundance of fireflies. (Hawley MN) I was watching late night TV and then saw a beetle on my throw..thought it was just another creepy crawler, so I got a paper towel to squish it and throw it away! Sure, the winters get cold, but the rolli, Kancamagus Highway Scenic Drive - New Hampshire Our first few years out of the last 12 we saw fireflys abound, then they all but vanished. I live n Central Virginia. fire flies are not flies at all they are a type of beetle Red Apple Fire: 12,288 Acres. Another species, P. potomaca, may now be extirpated from the Potomac Valley above Washington, D.C., where it was once abundant. I like very much to read your reports. However, I'm the writer of the original post, and I haven't seen even ONE firefly in the last few years. We were wondering if they have a short hatch period or are they around all summer.