these guys are great!
I was also blown away the first time I've seen bioluminescent bacteria on some strip algae...you would pass your finger by them and see the hidden binary encoded alien messages
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Is no one going to point out that it looks like Sauron's eye between the index and middle fingers?
Tried searching YouTube for "fireflies" to watch them in action. 99.9% of the results are music, podcasts and political channels using the term. Think I saw 2 videos of actual fireflies on the first page of results 😆
If you have Disney+ then there's a show called A Real Bugs Life and one of the episodes is mostly about fireflies (and atlas moths and staghorn beetles).
Firefly: a lightning bug
Lightning bug: a firefly
Fire bug: an arsonist
Lightning fly: ??? The electric eel of the dragonfly world?
"Is that bat glowing?"
That's no bat. Run!"
[Electrical crackling sounds]
I saw a few lightning bugs in my yard last year. My life goal have them consistently in my yard. Good thing this dovetails nicely with my other life goals of getting butterflies, bumblebees and birds in my yards
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Cocuyo is the name in Cuba 🥹
One of the cool things about living in Ohio for a couple years, didn't exist in Texas where I was raised.
Also significantly fewer roaches. In my experience they're more common in the south due to the warmer weather
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Tumbler has one of the worst comment layouts...
Are actually that bright? Where I live they are very dim and green.
Ghibli even made a movie about them