Monday, August 17, 2009
Firefly - Pyractomena borealis
I think everybody likes fireflies. You often see them on warm summer nights. Kind of magical. Well I found this guy sitting on the trunk of a tree at one of the usual stops on the West Arm Road. I thought, hey, a bug with a pink neck, how cool. When I found out it was a firefly, it kind of took the magical summer night image away. Oh well.
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Is the pink flesh someone involved in the glowing or is it incidental?
(Nice pics as always!)
Good question. I don't know. But I did read that they have poisonous blood.
The glowing actually occurs at their rear end due to the interaction of a specific enzyme with magnesium and oxygen.
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