A favorite part of summertime. Fireflies have been great to watch this year. But they are so darn hard to photograph! Andy suggested next time we try video over still photography. But below is a great long exposure photograph from Wickipedia that conveys a little more action.
I find this amazing (from Wikipedia) I never knew that Renaissance painters used a powder of dried fireflies to create a photosensitive mixture for some of their pigments. Is this true? I also love that according to dear Wiki, these fine organisms are thought to have evolved over time from simply using their bioluminesence to just ward of predators and became quite specialized in using their light instead for sexual selection with unique flash patterning. Aren't they just remarkable?
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Yes, I heart the lightening bugs too. Sometimes I sit there and watch them and just trip out. I think about what if I were someone who just arrived from a foreign land which didn't have lightening bugs and no one had told me about them. What would I think? I would be so startled and mystified. I would want to tell everyone back home about this strange place where little lights lit up the night.
Speaking of trippy, that second to last sentence on your post was pretty trippy its own self. I almost needed to beam that one home as a mysical phenomenon...
Love ya!
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