Lightning Bugs

Do you have lightning bugs where you live? I was in high school on a trip to Mountain Home, Arkansas, before I saw my first lightning bug, and a college graduate before I lived anyplace that had them. "Sam and the Firefly" was one of my favorite books as a kid, but I began to wonder if lightning bugs fell into the tooth fairy and Easter bunny category -- you could believe but never see! Troy thought I was so childish when we lived in Central Texas -- where he had grown up -- and I would get SO excited to see lightning bugs. I was so glad that my children would have them in their childhood memories -- only now they don't. Do lightning bugs boycott my neighborhood or is it all of West Texas? I suspect the wind is a little violent for them to light up around here. And I guess the air is a little too soggy for them to light up in Louisiana where I grew up. So for 10 brief years I lived where there were lightning bugs -- for some reason I really only remember seeing them after we moved into our house, though, which would make it only 6 years. Anyway, I miss the little flashlights of summer.