Sunday, July 15, 2012

Lightning Bugs

It is summertime and time for you and / or the 'kiddos' to go outside and enjoy the wonderful weather and (gasp) bugs.

Enjoy bugs?  What ever do you mean? you ask.

Well, for one thing, I am thinking of the Lightning bugs (aka fireflies).

Here you see the firefly in the daytime in this picture made by Bruce Martin and posted on Wikipedia.

You remember these amazing little 'critters'.  And surely you recall their amazing flashes of light that they give off in the night time.

But, how do they do this and why?

For a brief article that will explain this, HERE'S THE LINK

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