We have all seen them. They are a signature summer is here. Our kids go out on warm summber evening and catch them in little jars.
But what you may not know is they are apart of the beetle family. They also produce their own glow. When they take in oxygen it mixes in their body with luciferin to produce light with almost no heat!
Firefly light in intermitent and they blink with a unque patterns within their species.
The female plants her eggs in the earth and when born they eat worms and other insects in the ground. Adults can also eat these insects and pollenate, but some adults don’t eat at all!
Their life span is about two months and they are omnivores about the size of a paper clip.
