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The Lampyridae are a family of insects in the beetle order Coleoptera with more than 2,000 described species. They are soft-bodied beetles that are commonly called fireflies, glowworms, or lightning bugs for their conspicuous use of bioluminescence during twilight to attract mates or prey. Fireflies produce a "cold light", with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies. This chemically produced light from the lower abdomen may be yellow, green, or pale red, with wavelengths from 510 to 670 nanometers. Some species such as the dimly glowing "blue ghost" of the Eastern U.S. may seem to emit blueish-white light from a distance and in low light conditions, but their glow is bright green when observed up close. Their perceived blue tint may be due to the Purkinje effect.
Fireflies are found in temperate and tropical climates. Many are found in marshes or in wet, wooded areas where their larvae have abundant sources of food. Some species are called "glowworms" in Eurasia and elsewhere. While all known fireflies glow as larvae, only some adults produce light, and the location of the light organ varies among species and between sexes of the same species. The form of the insect that emits light varies from species to species (for example, in the glow worm found in the UK, Lampyris noctiluca, it is the female that is most easily noticed. ). In the Americas, "glow worm" also refers to the closely related family Phengodidae. In New Zealand and Australia the term "glow worm" is in use for the luminescent larvae of the fungus gnat Arachnocampa. In some species of firefly, the females are flightless.
Class: Insecta
Family: Lampyridae, Latreille, 1817
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
shot with my A6300 and smc PENTAX-M F/1:1.7 50mm wide open.
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"You can't take the sky from me."
Built this wee microscale (About 1:1000) ship for fun some months back, mainly because of the new (new to me anyway) cupcake top elements.
Photo taken by Legonardo Davidy, since I gave it to him before I remembered to take a photo of it.
Enjoy
Chris
My last firefly / lightning bug photoshoot of the season. Fishing Creek in Lancaster County, PA. Composite of 2 focus stacked exposures for the scene and a few hundred exposures of lightning bugs starting about 45 minutes after sunset.
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Lens: Minolta MC TeleRokkor 100mm f/2.5
Stacked composite of ~50+ exposures.
ISO 25600! Even after judicious application of Adobe AI Denoise, it's still pretty noisy but I'm glad to have the shot at all.
Another rare warbird at the Quinte International Airshow is the Firefly, a World War II carrier-borne fighter and anti-submarine aircraft. Only a handful of airworthy Fireflies remain.
Pearns Point, Antigua, Leeward Islands
Situated on the western edge of the Caribbean island of Antigua are the strange forested mounds of Pearns Point. The series of hills lie on top of a peninsula, surrounded by turquoise tropical waters. The area has been privately purchased and is now a luxury development site, offering plots of land under the mantra “shared by few, rivalled by none”. This is the view from the highest plot, at sunrise, where the wispy dawn clouds remind me of dancing fireflies.
Firefly alter mann und Frau mit grauem haar im roten arbeitsanzug sitzen in einer Badewanne voller Frösche
Lightning and fireflies
Light up the night just outside the town of Bonito MS during our night clicks. Some centas, ... thousands of fireflies, dance to the rhythm of aleatory flashes of the coming storm. Witness and be able to register this moment was one of my greatest gifts !!!!!
Raios e vagalumes
Iluminam a noite nos arredores da cidade de Bonito MS, durante nossos clicks noturnos. Algumas centas, milhares ... de vagalumes, dançam ao ritmo aleatório dos relâmpejos da tempestade que se aproxima. Presenciar e poder registrar este momento foi um dos meus maiores presentes !!!!!
It was that time of year again last couple of weeks. The synchronous fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park had rendered a great show we had experienced. Coupled with the sounds of flowing water in the creeks, the light show did put us in a dreaming land.
Lightning bugs of Lenape Park, Union County, NJ
@ 20 images stacked together using StarStax. Rokinon 24mm lens, 1 second, f4, iso 2500.
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Jar and lights: tarte. catching fireflies (holding animation included)
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Pose used for this pic made by myself.
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Fireflies were photographed above a thick patch of ferns in Lancaster, PA. The ferns were located in a forest above a stream that was absolutely loaded with fireflies. Higher on the hillside, there were fewer fireflies; however, I like the way it turned out! The image was taken with a Canon 80D and a Rokinon 12 mm f/2.8 lens. A stack of 101 exposures, taken at ISO 6400 were used to make this image. A goal zero mini lantern was used to illuminate the foreground in a couple of the stacked exposures.
Firefly Petunia: Glows in the Dark
Thanks to science and human ingenuity, that's set to change, according to a company called Light Bio. They just released their first glow-in-the-dark plant to the public: the Firefly Petunia.
The firefly petunia glows brightly and doesn’t need special food thanks to a group of genes from the bioluminescent mushroom Neonothopanus nambi. The fungus feeds its light-emitting reaction with the molecule caffeic acid, which terrestrial plants also happen to make. By inserting the mushroom genes into the petunia, researchers made it possible for the plant to produce enzymes that can convert caffeic acid into the light-emitting molecule luciferin and then recycle it back into caffeic acid — enabling sustained bioluminescence. Wood co-founded Light Bio with two of the researchers behind this work, Karen Sarkisyan, a synthetic biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in London, and Ilia Yampolsky, a biomolecular chemist at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University in Moscow.