...put straws in doodle bug holes and recite some poem and pull the bugs out of their hole?

...pull the "light" off lightning bugs and put them on our ears for earrings?

...tie a string to a June bug's leg and then let them fly?

The ladies in the office are taking about what then did as "Southern kids"?

I remember using the lightning bug "light" as a ring - thinking back on it, that was sooooo cruel.......

You girls are so mean ,,,,

This doodle bug  thing must be before my time.   what is a doodle bug?                         I'm doing great   Web

I tried to tell them that we don't have doodle bugs in the North.

Doodle bug is a Car truck thing Arne Saari had one, Ed Saari , Dennis Saari amd Harold Holmes and Myself use to drive into the woods and get field stone for the stone wall fence and build fire place at Arne's house. I remember one Dennis and I went up cut a bunch of trees down then Arne got so upset, he didn't own that section ,,,,,lol

Thure, I don't thing that is what they were referring to.  ;)  These doodle bugs live in holes in the ground.

I only know the doodle bugs Thure is talking about.

LOL Thank you Betty  

Always glad to help Thure...

I did look it up on google ,, bugs I do not like bugs I'll stick with the car idea ,,,,lol  

Trure described the only doddle bug I know of, but I will Goggle it to see about this southern bug that lives in holes in the ground that you suck them out with a straw.    No wonder the North Won.---------------------Just humor-----  I'm OK   , First Doctors chech up today.     Rehab time is going slow.     Web    

Hope you get a good report from the doctor, Web.

Betty  I should not have any problems.   My blood pressure been good and heart rate good.      118/74  with 74 bpm..  Heart rate  a little high for me.   61-65    Thanks Web

June bugs are a strictly a Southern / Oklahoma / Texas critter and they taste absolutely awful. Caught one once in the teeth driving a good clip on a back road east of Norman while in college. Stopped at a county store for something to kill the taste and rinse out myu mouth. Unfortunately the only and I do mean the only thing they had to sell that was liquid was Canadian Ace 3.2 beer. To this day, don't know which was worse, the June bug or the Canadian Ace. (you know a beer is bad when you can't give the rest of a 6-pack away in a fraternity house

Aren't the June bugs the big green ugly things that fly right at you all the time.

Ugly, big as bugs go but around here they are a dark brown.
Chickadas also known as katydids are green - and yes the spelling is way off. Grade schoolers would tie a thread around their necks to watch them fly in circles. Getting to OK at the age I did felt that was unnecessarily crule