Tennessee fireflies: A summertime light show
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2014
- There's one forest in Tennessee where fireflies put on a show unlike anywhere else. It's no wonder thousands of tourists camp out each year to witness the spectacle of nature's nightlife: a species of synchronous fireflies. Lee Cowan gives us a front row seat.
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I swear I'm adding this to my bucket list of places I MUST go.
Lucky me, i live in Tennessee.
I miss it! I live in Minnesota now and ya just don't see them much.
Me too !
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Are there only fireflies in Smokey mountains? I use to live in TN but never saw a single fireflies and I spends lots of time outside and basically live in a rural area or small town.
@@justsomeawesomedude2608 no they are everywhere I've seen them in other places in TN
I remember. When I was a kid and lived in a house, there were lots of fireflies, I loved to stay in the dark just watching them
***** dr.farnsworth
Same..
You don’t live in a house anymore?
@@rlyok7137 He lives on a building now. XD
Fireflies are amazing creatures. That tiny little thing gives so much beauty to the darkness of the night.
5 minutes and 45 seconds of stills/videos/interviews of people talking about/sitting down to watch the light show, and 20 whole seconds of video footage of the actual fireflies...mmph
lcozzarelli youtube is not really made for showcasing firefly light. But, the context of PEOPLE'S enhanced awareness of firefly tours ---was.
It's essentially a commercial to get you to go there. There not going to give the experience away for free.
You saved me so much time
@@imnotabotrlyimnot Yes, it is free. But the crowds have grown so large that you have to enter a lottery drawing to get a spot. Otherwise the crowds' feet would destroy the breeding grounds. They live as larvae in the ground for a year or two before becoming adults.
It's almost impossible to get video footage of the event. It's too dark and only a few, very expensive video cameras are able to record it. I have never seen it accurately recorded on video, but have heard that there are a couple of specialized video cameras which can do it. Most of the shots we see are time lapse photos, overlayed to simulate it.
What I see from my front porch, people actually pay to see🤯they really are beautiful to watch. We turn off the outside lights, kick back on the deck & watch our very own nature's light show.
I live in southern ohio, and when I was coming home from my grandparents, (I wasn't driving btw) I was looking out the window and we drove into a forested area between the farmland, and all the sudden the trees lit up full of fireflies like these. It was as if the stars had come down to dance and frolick among the leaves. It was absolutely beautiful.
Cool, Where was it?
Certainly beats being herded around by park rangers in a mob of Gatlinburg tourists.
What a beautiful sentiment, Markus Karanthus! People who love nature will always have beauty in their lives. Be well.
Only in ohio
I have once witness a tree full of fireflies and its awesomely beautiful.
The best firefly show I ever saw came unexpectedly after a fireworks show in northern Maine. For whatever reason, they flocked to that spot during the show and put on their own grand finale.
CBS didn't have the budget to bring a proper camera to capture fireflies?
Jacob Hoss did you not see the damn pictures ? You have to do a long exposure to pick them up .it's not about having an expensive camera it's knowing all three exposure values and a tripod.. good day
Pecos hank , remember the name...
No, they did get all the ones in the drawer with pins going through them.
They're probably covering the fake Russian bull crap
When this video was made, the camera capable of recording such flashing in the dark, with an extremely high ISO and high frames/second to accompany the ISO, did not exist. Because the firefly lanterns produce cold light, IR cameras will not work.
Thank you soon much for sharing this...I remember being little with my sister and running around in the evening back home in Tennessee catching fireflies in a mason jar. We would make it a competition to see how many we could catch, watch them for awhile and then release them back into the sky , sooo fun miss those times;)
I live in Indiana and when I go on walks late at night the trees are covered with fireflies and the stars are shining in the background. Very peaceful and beautiful. Nature is amazing.
Northern Indiana here and yeah. Find any open field out in the country on a beautiful summer night and they will be there in the 10s of 1000s. One of my favorite things in the world is to sit outside and watch them
@@donsolosFormerly NorInd, can confirm
There really is something breathtakingly beautiful about seeing 10s of thousands of fireflies doing their thing. My parents have a house in a small hill over looking a empty field in northern Indiana and fireflies always congregate in the open fields out in the country there. Can't tell you how many times I have sat out there and watched them for an hour. Or as a kid running around catching them putting them in Mason jars. I remember my mom's childhood friend came to town from California and had a boy my age who had never seen fireflies and he was just amazed by them, I still remember how special that was for him
Last year I went to visit my sister who lives in Lexington Kentucky. and let me tell you at 49 years 😂years old, I was mesmerized with them. It was just beautiful seeing all that beauty in her backyard. Till this day she send me videos of them during June and July. ❤ It truly is breathtaking.
I miss Fireflies. I used to see them when I was a child in my Village Kale ke Mandi. Punjab Pakistan 🇵🇰
I grew up in Tennessee with these magical creatures. My brother Ed and I would put them in a Mason jar and release them in our bedroom at night when Mama thought we were sleeping. Our delighted giggles gave us away every time. As a teen my friends and I would stuff our car full of "lightning bugs" and with the windows rolled up, we would drive through the hamburger Drive-In restaurants, entertaining the Carhops on roller skates. Silly FUN TIMES. :)
+HappyHulaDancer that sounds like such a dreamy childhood, lucky.
Not the same ones you catch and put in mason jars unless you live in the middle of those mountains where you can't live.
I grew up that way aswell
The poor lightening bugs.
I came here after the professor in my class started giving examples of synchronicity. This is indeed a beautiful phenomena. TY professor.
"My light's brighter than your light!" 😂😂😂
Those insects are a gift from God.
Indeed
@@community1949 too bad 😂
Karl Priest If u dont think of God, I feel sorry 4 you.
Actually it's a gift from evolution. 😉
@@BrianDodl1 thank you
I’m living in California now, but from Virginia. Family all over the south. I miss fireflies. I love has never seen one in person. So one of these days I’m gonna have to bring her here. I can’t wait to see the look on her face when she gets to experience this herself first hand.
I saw firefly once, and it is only 1 firefly, but majestic creatures, Wish I had a chance to see thousands of them in nature
Who doesn't love fireflies? Which is amazing among insects how much people enjoy them.
I traveled in TN many times during the 80s and 90s attending schutzhund training seminars and trials. There was a farmer's field near Knoxville that hosted the synchronized fireflies. I had never seen anything like before or since. There were rolling waves of light over the hills. Probably that farmer's field is now a Wal Mart or some fugly subdivision where everyone sprays their lawns.
You were likely seeing a different species. The Photinus carolinus which this video is about, do not appear in fields, but in the deep, dark woods. They are found in very isolated and rare populations. Synchrony of fireflies can best be explained by imagining a string of light bulbs operated by a single switch. The switch goes on and off, illuminating them all at the same time, and extinguishing them all when the switch is thrown.
My Favorite bug!
Living on the west coast is disappointing during the summer months, as we have nothing to watch at night. Being an OTR trucker, I had a couple of opportunities to see and enjoy the tiny little critters once I got out past the Midwest. Y'all on the East Coast are blessed to have these beautiful bugs. 😊👍
I remember one year in St. Louis, Missouri that was wonderful for fireflies. I walked outside every night, almost, and looked at them filling the trees. It was magical.
These are amazing. Brings back memories
Same with me, I saw Fireflies and started learning and Observing them since I was 8.I was enchanted by the sightings I never tried to Capture them in a Mason Jar like some girls do.Because its their Nature to be free,they'd die of exhaustion,or their life spans are shortened when they are caged for the sake of Amusement.
People from parts of Africa ,the Tribes catch fireflies during their mating season and use them to write Secretive Documents especially the forbidden ones/the Voodoo at Night times
We were camping in Virginia in the woods and saw an entire flight of fireflies all flash at the same time in the same pattern. It lasted maybe 30 seconds. Now that was synchronized fireflies.
beautiful little things a natural spectacle of stars Light up the sky the first time I seen them I was transfixed by them.
I live in Middle TN and look SO forward to our fireflies every year, but I’ve not seen this. I find them joyous as it is near my home. Guess I need to go see this!!
When visiting my grandparents in Hastings Nebraska many years ago as a young child, I remember catching fireflies in the backyard...it's something I've never forgotten...
'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs...
Kaitlyn Pineapple Shea
As they try to teach me how to dance...
I'd like to make myself believe.
That planet Earth turns slowly...
Kaitlyn Pineapple Shea reminds me of Massachusetts as a boy near Braintree and Quincy in summer nights. I just love to see them with my dad. RexHarrisen
@@rexharrisen5387 way to ruin it lol
so beautiful..I remember my childhood..We used to catch fireflies and we put it inside the clear bottle.And we let them free after...
You would not believe your eyes, if a thousand fireflies, lit up tennessee.
Once you see nature you'll start to think that the creator is much more than you think that he made a great world for you to see how you are so grateful and how significant you are to him. 😊❤❤❤
Thank you God and I hope you have a great day 💖
Firefly season is my favorite time of summer.
I just love catching fireflies!!they're coming in and out in our house..and I love setting in my windows and watching them flying and glowing in the night!!
Awesome
In NJ in Fair Lawn there's a small patch of woods down a path where you could see a whole field of fireflies all around you! They weren't this synchronous type but it was still wondrous, ethereal and almost spiritual to have 100's of tiny Christmas lights blinking all around you in the trees and bushes!
I am a thankful old school and still remember those wild times I had back than. Especially that Super Cool music the D.J. was playing. Now that was freedom and I enjoy every second of it. I knew it would come back someday but not in my lifetime again. I thank you. I also seem the Queen and Thin Lizzie show at the garden. A mind-blowing experienced that was. Well live and learn. Again I thank you Paul and Maxine you got that sound and movement once again and thanks for giving the troops something back they need. Live Long and Love. Gary
I'd like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly.
I feel the same way :)
The_Boss Slowly...
Old song, get over it.
Just bc its old doesnt mean its not good
It's hard to say that i'd rather stay awake when i'm asleep.
I love reading the people's stories about their childhood with fireflies. It's heart warming actually ☺
Mother Nature's blessings...
The Moment of Nature should have its own show. How much video are you sitting on ?
Perhaps its own channel . Thanks for posting.
I've seen them just once in the UK. I've never forgotten it, it was magical ✨️
Me too. It was over 50 years ago in the garden of a country pub near my home in Hertfordshire. Everyone else was chatting and drinking and laughing while I was just transfixed watching the beautiful display. A magical experience I witnessed that one and only time.
I remember when I was a kid, there are many fireflies in our backyard. My brother and I use to catch them and put it in the bottle.😅
During my childhood almost every night especially on summer in my simple village.I always saw a group of fireflies flashing everywhere,We even chase them and put into jar.It was very magical .
My Mom grew up in Ohio, there, and when I was in Nebraska age 15, they called them "Lightning Bugs"
We never knew them as fireflies. We always called them Lightening bugs too. I grew up in Maryland, and now live in Europe. Oh how I miss those hot + humid summer nights.
Bowecho, you live in Europe now? What part? I'd love to live in Europe, but money issues.
One foggy August night driving back from a wedding rehearsal in Ohio I was graced by a firefly display shrouded in fog. The lights of the fireflies in the foggy roadside was doubly illuminated by the fog enveloping each beetle. Amazing.
I remember in Tagaytay, Philippines just outside the staff house beside a convent for sisters there was this Mango tree with lots of Fireflies that this single mango tree is glowing with firefly. When the cold wind blows hard the tree glows brighter than ever. A truly magical experience. Also, in our jackfruit tree in our garden saw a firefly flying with a white light. It was alone but the glow is extremely rare. A rare sight to behold.
We have them in the yard in Southern Illinois. I had never seen something before and was totally taken aback. I think we sat outside for over an hour watching them. It is like magic.
I saw most of this on CBS This Morning and missed the very beginning. It was absolutely beautiful.
Love fire flies!
Diana Fuentes me to reminds me of when I lived in Westchester County New York
And I thought I had to leave the country to go see this ...wow. so gorgeous and this will be on my bucket list for upcoming summer ✨🧚♂️
Absolutely awesome!
How beautiful!!!
What a show !! Never knew that this happened anywhere especially so close to home. Hard to believe so many people sit in the woods and watch Fire Flies. We will be back next year !
eh yr ffy 75
Very cool , that's a lot of fire flies.
I remember summers in NYC (Laurelton) visiting my cousin and playing with fireflies ✨ 😍
in 1998 when I was a wee lad I remember dosens of fireflies in Afghanistan that use to come into our village and compound and how we would chase and capture them, when guests where in the house and all the olders where inside all the kids will be outside playing, they where absolutely amazing and bats use to fly around like crazy and you would look up and see a billion stars a window into space and then someone would come looking for us holding a lantern telling us to come inside for dinner. the bats would hide in cracks of walls I use to love them so much, alot of the time we sleep outside as a whole massive family with multiple massive room size beds for each family and the beds would be risen from the ground and have nets over it to protect us from the mosquitos it was very nice and cool outside.
Mountain Breeze which part of Afghanistan? I myself am from the Laghman province, it's beautiful there but unfortunately I haven't been there since I was a kid because it's not as safe as it used to be.
Mountain Breeze I wish I see them in Ahghanistan with you. I am from Armenistan and Boston. It is lovely story of your life and culture.
You please must tell more story of your life there. I love the books the 'Kite Runner' will love to explore. Also movie 'the Man who would be King' filmed there.
What magical memories, Mountain Breeze! May nature always be with you. Be well,
The same summer that this story aired, I was actually living in Blount County, TN, between Maryville and Seymour. I rented in a rather rural area, and next door to me was a rather neglected pasture that butted up to Highway 411. One evening, I noticed that a whole swarm of fireflies like this, presumably the same species, began blinking in unison in the tall grass. Tried to video it but the video just would not pick it up well. So I enjoyed this same kind of show for that night and the following night, then the pasture got bush-hogged the day after that and the show never happened again. Very unique opportunity to see this same type of light show from my own deck and porch, without having to go into the park; one of my fondest memories of 12 years living and working in East TN.
So beautiful I would love to see this
Ahhh, enjoying this spring night, i just saw my 1st lighting bug of the yr so i decided to look them up. Glad i did 😉
When I was a kid, you could sit in Bastrop, TX, in the parks near downtown, and watch thousands of them dance for hours. Every kid went home with a jarful and still the sea of glowing green was endless. I imagine those days are gone...
Thanks for the beautiful show!
No footage of the event is actually shown.
It's a rare camera which can get a video of this. They blink in total darkness. You'd have to have an ISO rating extremely high, as well as a frames/second capability which the common old camera does not have. I've seen it tried with several cameras, some with ISO ratings as high as 50,000, and all fail.
Sooooooo cool! I'd love to experience this event!
Beautiful, interesting stuff. ❤
*LEB = LIGHT EMITTING BUG*
*BRILLIANT!* 💡
I rennet on vacation there once and me and my husband was returning to Cherokee and was afield at base of mountain and it was lit up with fire flies,we will always remember that, night, it was a beautiful a sight, driving down the mountain at night was scared tho.
This was my favorite part about visiting Tennessee
Some places in West Virginia are like that. It's like watching a fireworks display. They start out flashing randomly, and the number of them increases to the point that they look like millions of stars. Then groups of them will start flashing like running christmas string lights, flashing sequentially in long lines. And then finally most of them sync up and it looks like lightning flashes.... bright, then dark, then bright again. It's surreal.
This was very interesting & I had been wandering why we don't see many of them any more. This was something we always enjoyed when we were children & summer time came along. We would sit outside or on the porch & watch the fireflies. We also like to catch a few & put in a jar. We would punch holes in the top of the jar so they could get air, then we would sit them in our bedroom & watch after the light was turned out for the night.
Wow,amazing,wish I could go.
This is beautiful.
Amazing part of life ... I like the part a "right of passage" ... pure magic experienced by all ... : )
when was it?
*rite
Coyōte Starrk
lol
Looking to move somewhere where there are fireflies. From Cali and would visit my Grandparents in Pittsburgh Pa in the summer and see the fireflies. Fell in love with the sight of them lighting up!
Just returned from this event in 2016! Congrats to the rangers and the GSMNP for an incredible show! Do this if you can! I would do it again!
Bluegrasshack: Where is this event?
Can you give me the name of where to go? Xx
@@thereseember2800 Since 1993, this peak date has occurred at various times from the third week of May to the third week in June. Details www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/fireflies.htm
@@kimhandley1523 Since 1993, this peak date has occurred at various times from the third week of May to the third week in June. Details www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/fireflies.htm
I love these little creatures.
They're my favorite insect.
In Norfolk, Virginia the local species begin to flash around May 30 and last until the beginning of July.
Peak is mid June with 20 to 30 visible at a time. Look forward to them every year!
Well I hope your happy, another outdoor addition to my bucket list.
My husbands family is from the north MS: Memphis, TN area. We were out in his truck in a field when this exact show happened. I was very very romantic. This is how my first son was conceived. My husband is in Heaven now and my oldest is 19 and it remains the single most magical experience of my life. Close on the list is see my babies faces for the first time and marrying their Dad.
This is wonderful.
I remember as kids we used to get a flat stick like a ruler and hit them with it and they light up as they go flying through the air like a plane going down in flames,or pull their rear end off and put it on a small stick and act like we were smoking a cigarette.😆🤷♂️
They drove ALL THE WAY from knoxville! Wow. A while 65 minute drive. Impressive.
We have millions of these on my wooded property in Sharpsburg GA. Very few unmolested old growth forests near residential areas but there are a few left.
They usually start mid May and end around early June.
Truly breathtaking to watch. We're very lucky!
I do actually. Fuck off
10 million fireflies?
Used to be thousands in our little block in central Il as a kid in the 60's.
Still miss em in Co 30 yrs later.
5:44 "Before the glow is gone, for another YEE" LOL
Awe. This reminds me of childhood camping. When it was time to go bathe we wood go in the forest to the waterfalls and bathe while catching the fireflies. This was on an island in the Pacific Ocean btw.
great.very detailed documentary i ever seen.good work
I just saw a few of them on the wall in my living room tonight. When I went to release them outside they all started blinking they're lights as if they were saying thank you.
From NC and we'd catch them in Mason Jars and bring them in as our night lights 😄 We called them lightning bugs!
I love that guys comment..'We have them in Kentucky but they don't have their act together' lol. Hope to get to see this one day :)
Bioluminescence is amazing to me
I live here and have been waiting to watch this forever it’s so hard to get tickets. Growing up here in the summer we would catch them and rub the light part on our face the girls would wear it like fingernail polish. Just my memories of my East Tennessee summers.
We have them in MI but not like TN, they must be a different kind of bug, Hope to move to Townsend TN and leave MI soon, what a beautiful place.
@@quantumfx2677 Townsend is about an hour and half from where I live. I live just north of Knoxville. We must’ve have a specific lighting bug. I know the park and the rangers just think that spot is conducive to them being there
Wow this is amazing. Too bad I’ve never seen 1 single firefly in my life
The Stream with the fireflies is exactly what I saw in a dream this time.It was some place in North India, Ladakh I guess.I remember I told myself I was in Ladakh in that Dream
I'm in South Texas. Our fireflies are VANISHING!!!!
I see this every summer here in ky... It's beautiful. Wish I could capture it on camera.
I love Tennessee
How incredible I would love to see that
just took the garbage out and across the lawn, the fireflies were 'in bloom'! I'm not an insect person but the firefly (and ladybug) is the only insect I can touch or let land on me! Everything else, well...!
I'll always love these bugs and I would always be trying to catch then in the pool yard when making s'mores or whatever. Sadly, I haven't seen any down here on the coast of Mississippi. I hope I'll see more when we move to San Antonio at the beginning of summer. :)
We’ve lot of fireflies in our backyard. It pop ups whenever electricity is down.
I remember in Ohio where I would see fireflies in my grandma's backyard such beautiful creatures I wish I could see again BTW I'm using my aunt's account (I'm 11)
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Enjoy it while you can. Surely the emissions from all those vehicles will be thinning the crowd of fireflies as the years go by. We used to have them near that back in the 70s. Now you might see a couple dozen if you're lucky.