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These shin ing white beacons illuminate large patches of dark, pushing back the mysterious blackness and providing daylight-like visi bility within their reach. Bright, white lights not only lighten the dark summer nights, they also allow us to not only hear the screechings and squal lings of the tomcats squabbling over territory, but also to see them chasing one another outside the dairy barn. The nightlight at the dairy barn shines the way for an after-dark trip to the milk house, so 4 a.m. breakfast is not milk-less cereal. It reassures us that the banging outside the boxstalls is merely from a cow that slipped her neckchain and not one of those wandering black bears that have recently been roaming our area. CLOSEOUT *139” July always provides very spe cial summer lights to dot the darkness. “A lightning bug!” the grand kids shouted one evening recent ly, as heating-up nights brought the first fireflies out to blink in search of companionship. “Grandma, let’s catch it!” “Poor bug is probably terri fied,” chuckled our daughter, as three gleeful sets of hands and feet chased across the grass through deepening dusk to snag the elusive flashing insect. Ap parently sensing the imminent threat from too much affection, the firefly promptly switched di rection and was last seen crawl ing beneath a strawberry plant. Clouds of the phosphorescent beetles hatch out with the onset of hot summer nights. They wink and blink, signalling their pres ence and eager participation in this annual insect proliferation marathon. Thousands of them, Look For The Energy Star UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) 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Even two-year old Sarah, still not convinced that earthworms are not life-threaten ing monsters, overcomes her in sectophobia long enough to chase “flashlight bugs.” Firefly chases offer clean wholesome exercise (those bugs are speedy in search of mates), teaching opportunities (lots of beginner science discus sions) and help sharpen observa tion skills (where will that bug flash next?). Lightning bugs, like gentle summer nights, are a fleeting, short-lived commodity. And, after our interminably bitter win ter, fireflies flitting over the fields are a welcome change from snowflakes. 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