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Lights
Last January Jim Cook of Woodville wrote to suggest this particular column. At the time fireflies were far from our thoughts. But we’re seeing them now. Their evening displays are certainly among the best-loved of natural summer spectacles.
Everyone probably has fond memories of chasing fireflies as a child, perhaps capturing some in a bottle to watch them glow. They are familiar to everyone, but there is still'much about them that we don’t know.
We do know they make up a fairly diverse family (Lampyridae) of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that can be found worldwide. Approximately 175 of the 1900 described species live in the United States, mostly east of the Mississippi River.
Most adult fireflies produce light flashes, the function of which appears to be attraction of mates, or perhaps prey. The flashes are also apparently a distress signal given off when an animal is caught (which is
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