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trent/OH · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 554 Location: Southwest Ohio

At Boy Scout camp last week (in Hoosier National Forest) we found some Foxfire.
Have any of you woodsrunners ever found Foxfire? Or put it to use?

Shawnee Mike · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject:

My Brother and I have found very small Worms that glow at night. I thought they were Foxfire, but i guess foxfire is a type of fungus? Correct?
The worms were pretty cool in the pitch black of night. Smile

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Luke MacGillie · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject:

I used to find the ancestors of what you found when I went to that same camp, cant remember the name, but it was south of Bloomington, big lake with an island in the center for OA Ordeals
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Capt Mike · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject:

Have found foxfire several times here in the woods at night. Stuff is really weird.
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ditmurier · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:44 pm Post subject:

Never found a period use for it but found it a lot over the years. Walking into a area near dusk and seeing stuff glowing across the valley/banks of creeks can give one a eerie feeling? Usually grows during a wet summer, which causes a lot of rot on then down trees? I belief it is usually on either down maple or beech trees?
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Dutch · Joined: 04 Aug 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Pennsylvania

I found some in Pinchot State Park in PA while our scout troup was camping , I think it was towards the end of summer. We did not have any use for it, but I bet our scoutmaster was happy, because it kept us boys occupied for a while trying to figure it out.

Matt Szychulda · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 179 Location: West

Very neat stuff, just be sure it is foxfire and not a haint or spirit! Lots of those in the woods. Shocked

I have always liked fireflys too. Something a little magical about it all.

trodgers · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:23 pm Post subject:

Its most common use is keeping kids and teens busy looking for it... and once they've found some, they want more.
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Ohio Rusty · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:25 am Post subject:

I've not come across foxfire, but I see those glowing worms often in my back yard. Their glow is more green ...like the glow of a glow in the dark toy. Lighting bugs are yellow. That is how I know what is in the grass. Thee worms show up when my lawn gets too long. I've not seen them in short grass.
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Mike Brooks · Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 328 Location: Iowa

We were on a pack in squirell hunt in the Iowa woods about 20 years ago, very rainy weekend. The entire woods was lit up with the stuff, very cool. The only time I have ever seen the stuff.

snapper · Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 156 Location: Milford, NY

I was teaching a course in the Adirondacks of NYS and was leading a night walk. For one of the activities the students had to walk off into the woods. A couple of them came back talking about the weird glowing they saw in the woods. Another instructor and I went into the area they identified and found some. It's the only time I've ever seen it in the Adirondacks but it sure was nice to see.

Until next time...Be well.

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rbaker1757 · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 28 Location: Southwestern PA

Found some a few years back at Ft. Roberdeau. Pretty interesting stuff and really fun to use to mess with people.

Rich

Hummingbird-in-the-Garden · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 472 Location: NW GA

I've never seen foxfire, that I remember, but I have seen the glowworms y'all talk about. Those are female lightningbugs/fireflies. The males are the ones you see flying around, and if they don't find a mate, they'll fly higher and higher until they land in the trees so they can climb back down for the next night.

Has anyone ever seen the cone of light below a lightningbug when it flashes? I didn't know they could do this until I saw them out in the woods up in Massachusetts about ten years ago, where there were no lights nearby.

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flashpan · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject:

I've seen foxfire, pretty neat stuff!

A naturalist that I know had a great experience with foxfire.
He was conducting a night hike with a group of about twenty when one of the hikers asked him "what are those lights over there, moving around?" Unsure, he told them the truth, that he really didn't know! After the hike was done, he went back to the spot with binoculars and waited. After a short wait, he saw the dancing lights coming in and out of a log, and with the binoculars, could tell that they were ground squirrels! He went to the hollow log and it was glowing inside with foxfire, and the ground squirrels were getting it on their fur going in and out of the log!

Doc Muzzy · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:49 am Post subject:

It is really Alien snot where one of them sneezed . . . or so my grandfather told me
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