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Name:  melissa
Status:  other
Age:  20s
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Date: 2000-2001
Question:
My husband and I live in New Hampshire. We were wondering where lightning bugs go in the winter especially since our winters are sooo cold. And what about June bugs?

Replies:
Lightning bugs overwinter as larvae buried in the soil. June bugs as adults in underground burrows.

J. Elliott

The larval forms subsist in the ground I believe.

PF

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