HERE it is.)
I think that this is a perfect example of the kind of story that people (including me) miss out on by not having a whole print paper in front of them to flip through page by page, as Angelia was saying in class last Thursday.
Note how the author did not clean up the repeated use of "like" by the 36-year-old woman who is quoted.
(The lede has caused the 1997 song "Beetlebum" by the English band Blur to be stuck in my head all day!)
In a Flash, Summer Love Is All Over Washington
Amorous Fireflies Get Boost From Wet Weather
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 11, 2009
This is that strange, sweet part of summer when life stops for a beetle's behind.
On a June night in Bethesda, a woman blast-e-mailed her neighborhood: "Go outside RIGHT NOW. Look into the dark." At a park in Arlington, a man clicked one flash from a penlight and waited for an insect to signal back.
This is firefly season in Washington, the best and brightest in several years. Scientists say a wet spring has made a lightning-bug-friendly region even more so, and hordes of the insects are now spending the last days of their lives floating over lawns and blinking in treetops.
In the daytime, most fireflies -- there are about 2,000 species of them worldwide, 200 in the United States -- look like a second cousin to the junebug. But at night, chemical reactions produce a glowstick light from their abdomens, each tiny bug worth about 1/40th of a candle.
This spectacle holds even more magic if you know what they're saying....
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