Anyone who has ever seen the night in the field or in the woods dancing myriads of tiny lights, do not forget about this fascinating spectacle.Do you want to take a closer look mysterious lanterns adorn the summer night?This firefly - insect that belongs to the family of beetles, Coleoptera, called in Latin Lampyridae.
Why do they shine?
his amazing ability to glow fireflies have because they are at the bottom of the abdomen special bodies composed of photogenic cells and under these reflectors, which are filled with crystals of uric acid.Here, the oxidative processes causing the glow.The light can be of different strength and duration, but always a greenish or reddish yellow shade.They are like insects to protect against predators, warning inedibility glow about her, and to attract the opposite sex.
Firefly - insect night
In our latitudes inhabited by several species of fireflies.Some of them - Ivanovo worms - nocturnal insects that spend the day in the grass and fallen leaves, and at nightfall go hunting.Living the fireflies in the forest where prey on spiders, snails and small insects.Ivanovo female worm can not fly and completely brown-brown, but the underside of the three abdominal segment white.They shine brightly.Firefly - insect, with which you can even read, leading a living torch the lines.And fireflies living in the Caucasus, glow in flight.These reddish sparks dancing in a thick dark southern night, give it a special mystery and charm.
marriage between
At the moment when it is time to mating, the male-firefly photos you saw in the article is sent to search for the sign from the female wishing procreation.And once it detects this, it comes down to.The fact that different types of fireflies emit light at different frequencies, which guarantee that mate with each other will be representatives of the same species.Firefly - an insect which chooses a partner is female.It defines the character of its glow.The higher the frequency of its flickering, the brighter the light emanating from it, the more chances to charm the male partner.In tropical forests, males fireflies perform their ladies collective "Serenade", simultaneously igniting and extinguishing their torches.Trees, a braided "lumiere" shine brighter storefronts in big cities.But there are cases and deaths mating.The female uses the sign beckoning light to attract the males of other species.When fertilizer is seduced, she just eats them.
Procreation
from the eggs that the female postponed after fertilization, there are large voracious larvae are black with yellow spots.By the way, they also shine as adults.By fall, they are hidden in the bark of trees, where they remain for the whole winter.And next spring, waking, feeding a few weeks, then pupate and 2.5 in 1 week are developing new adult fireflies able to surprise us with their mysterious night light.
