Fireflies home
- We have started a beautiful month of May. By the time we realize, we are on the longest days of the year. They will then be the shortest nights of the year, but with a unique show. I don't mean those furious feasts that sanctify the feasts. Fireflies are quieter.
Fireflies are beetles that, with oxidation under the bark, produce a cool chemical light, bioluminescence, to attract what they want to hunt or to stimulate and zoom in on the couple. There are reportedly around 2,000 firefly species in the world, each using its own frequency of light and its succession of appearances and blackouts. They are more abundant in areas with humidity, as they contain more food.
After this warm, cold-light dance, the lucidal pups are born from the eggs that the female lays underground. It's born with a canine hunger. Their favorite dishes are caterpillars, worms, snails and small bibs or slugs. It has a unique tactic: when it finds them paralyzes and holds them with a fluid, while that same fluid will digest from the inside of the victim and then, when the firefly needs it, eat calmly.
Fireflies represent a rich environment. Don't you see less and less firefly? And more and more worms, snails and bibs? This means that your environment is becoming less and less environmentally friendly. The decline of fireflies may be motivated by the arrogant use of insecticides, the increase of night brightness, the decrease of humidity...
Surround the fireflies. Turn off the lights at night. Do not use insecticides. As pollen is also eaten, the possibility of flowers is opened. Put water in the tap or well or watering hole. Keep the water environment as natural as possible, without “cleaning” it: mud or mud, bits of branches and wood, herbs and plants. Keep trees high.
In Japan, firefly is considered the “National Treasure”, one of the greatest monuments of culture. Our culture is in...
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