What is "lightning bugs"

Usage examples of "lightning bugs".

Another flamed, like lightning bugs of a summer night, except the flash was red and seemed filled with a terrible violence.

Was he the only person from their little corner of the galaxy who could remember lightning bugs?

The lightning bugs couldn't stand the sprayed flesh, and could neither shock it into submission nor feed on it, and soon died out.

So he transformed them into lightning bugs and got well away from there so they couldn’.

So he transformed them into lightning bugs and got well away from there so they couldn't shock him.

Some Bink recognized: lightning bugs zapping their charges (this must have been where the demonstration bug had come from, the one that had burned up in the village), soldier beetles marching in precise formations to their bivouac, ladybugs and damselflies hovering near in the immemorial fashion of easy-virtue females near armies.

There was the house, its lighted windows flaring in the light-amplified picture, and the guards wandering about - those with cigarettes looked like lightning bugs.

Some Bink recognized: lightning bugs zapping their charges (this must have been where the demonstration bug had come from, the one that had burned up hi the village), soldier beetles marching hi precise formations to their bivouac, ladybugs and damselflies hovering near hi the immemorial fashion of easy-virtue females near armies.

Baedecker could see lightning bugs flickering on the far shore like the flash of small arms fire.