We had quite a few unusual play things in Arizona when I was very small. Have never seen a june bug or horned toad in California.
I wish I could have seen a frog at night after it ate a fire fly and glowed in the dark that is truly amazing lol. I love what I learn in this category from you all.
Yes, all the above even granddaddy spiders. doodle bugs , anything that crawled or could fly (if we could catch it) even little mice. We lived in the south (still do) and were not afraid of anything. Played with hog-nosed snakes too. Poppy
Did any of you play with horned toads,frogs and june bugs?
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In Michigan at night we would gather night crawlers for fishing or to sell to fisherman. We sometimes would catch lighting-bugs and put them in a jar. If we forgot to let them go, by morning most of the lights were out– the bugs died.
My dog Susie loved June bugs. She ate them!
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I grew up in New Hampshire and frogs were all over the place. We caught them all the time, even had a meal of frog legs just once. In 1953 I went to Irvine California for the Boy Scout Jamboree and had a pet horny toad for the ten days we camped out. He was missing one leg. June bugs were in New Hampshire also but they gave me the creeps so I stayed out of their way, they are huge.
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We played with June bugs , we tie a string on their leg, also frogs and caught minnows and crawl dads, in the creek and at night we would catch lightening bugs. southern Ohio
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I collected june bugs and tied a string to one leg and held the string while the june bug flew. I can now see the cruelty of it.
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Did you ever feed a firefly to a frog?
Then you take the frog into a dark room, and he’s lit up from the inside.
That’s incredible.
No harm done, except to the firefly.
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I do not think they live in UK either.
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Used to play with frogs and horned toads all the time here in Texas. Now the horned toads are almost all gone! Used to fish for crawdads in the creek with bacon on a string, right here in the city. The crawdads are all gone, too.
For some reason, I’ve always been squeamish about June bugs, but not lightning bugs. I wonder why that is?
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yes, and lightening bugs in a jar!
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My friend married her horned toad of a man.
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Don’t have horny toads in MI, but have played with toads, frogs, June bugs and woolly worms
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Yes and grasshoppers and ants too.
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No but I used to collect lightning bugs, in a jar. It had holes in the top, and I let them go the next day.
I did also catch polliwogs, and keep them for a while, so I could watch them turn into frogs.
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We don’t have horned toads here but we have plenty of frogs and june bugs and they were fun to play with. Also liked to catch lightening bugs in a jar and watch them light up after dark. Also liked to catch tadpoles in the ditch.
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Yes, all the above even granddaddy spiders. doodle bugs , anything that crawled or could fly (if we could catch it) even little mice. We lived in the south (still do) and were not afraid of anything. Played with hog-nosed snakes too. Poppy
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I played with praying manthis. Always picked worms from yard after hard rain.
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I still play with toads(Bufus Bufus) and June Bugs(May Beetles).
Toads generally stay in the same area year after year and like to sleep under clay pots in the daytime. As evening approaches, they jump up on the porch, as the porch light provides their evening meals.
June Bugs are a very important part of the food chain for many birds and animals. Box and Water Turtles in particular, find them to be mighty tasty and larger birds like Jays and Crows, find them irresistable.
Did you know that Lightning Bugs(Pennsylvania Fireflies) are poisonous to birds and reptiles?
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Can’t help it, am an outdoors person.
Reared in S. TX. Played with horny toads, june bugs, fireflies and toe pinchers (earwigs). No frogs where I lived.
. Used to be crawdads after rainstorms. Hurricane Beula pretty much wiped out horny toads, here.
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