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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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
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 ๐
Is no one going to point out that it looks like Sauron's eye between the index and middle fingers?
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
Make sure not to bag and toss all the leaves in the fall - leave a bunch in a pile in the corner of your yard. Thats where they like to stay at night
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
Tumbler has one of the worst comment layouts...
Cocuyo is the name in Cuba ๐ฅน
I have never seen one and I am very jealous :(
Yeah. I once even visited the US South, but it was the wrong time of year or area.
Are actually that bright? Where I live they are very dim and green.
Ghibli even made a movie about them
It's been more than 20 years since my wife moved to the west cost and she still laments the lack of fireflies. Where-as, whenever I've been out east, I'm caught off guard by them... then I start singing Roxanne.
You don't have to put on the gold light