Why aren't there fireflies on Hawaii?
They have roosters everywhere, and pineapple, why not fireflies?
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Hawaii is isolated enough that the only way fireflies could get there is if they were unnaturally introduced (like the pineapple, rooster and coconut palm). As long as shipments coming in to Hawaiian ports don’t bring in fireflies, there won’t ever be any.
We didn’t have them in FL, maybe they are not in warmer climates.
My sister in law is from Morroco and had never seen them til she came to the states.
Same reason there are no Kangaroos in Canada.
No fireflies, skunks or poison ivy in Australia, but we do have kangaroos!
Is on Hawaii correct? I am asking to know in the future. Usually we say in. I live in Maryland, there are no mountains in Florida. But above you wrote ON Hawaii, so I wondered if since it is an island the correct preposition is on, and I would have used the wrong one.
@rooeytoo And, you have 11 of the 14 most poisonous snakes in the world, too!
@PerryDolia – yep and on any given day 9 of them can be found in my back yard. You forgot the spiders we have lots of bad spiders too and crocs, sharks and stingers.
This is not a place for the weak of heart, unless you live in Sydney or Melbourne.
@JLeslie We have fireflies in the United States, but do we have them in the continent? If you are talking about the confines of a place with a boundary, such as state it is “in” if it is an island or continent, it has to be ‘on’ because ‘in’ would mean in the soil or such.
So are fireflies in the State of Hawaii, or on the island of Hawaii?
Some info on fireflies from National Geographic. There’s a global distribution map too, and it shows that the fireflies are pretty much globally distributed, so it’s nothing to do with warmer/cooler climates. For Hawaii, I’m inclined to agree that it’s because they haven’t been introduced…yet.
@YARNLADY makes sense. I think I would have said “on the island” and “in Hawaii.” I guess I would have been wrong. Thanks.
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