# A question about lightning bugs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-lightning-bugs/326868>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 19, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-lightning-bugs/326868 "2005-10-19T05:17:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-lightning-bugs/326868/21 "2005-10-22T06:00:21Z")

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> [@plnnr](#):
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> Another advocate of the Whiffle Bat method. My brothers and I used to do the same thing (of course, we in our 20s and pretty drunk at the time).

Wiffle bat? We used the good old-fashioned Louisville slugger. You could get pretty good distance if you hit em square. If I remember right, they’d glow all the way down and for about 10 seconds after they hit the ground. Maybe longer, but after that I’d be off to find the next lightning bug.

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