"Cave ecology is so important! Cave ecology is so important! Cave ecology is so important!"
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"Starry Starry Night..." When you see the sky above you shining so brightly, you can't help but sing this beautiful melody
However, this is not an outdoor starry sky, but a "Waitomo" cave in New Zealand, Which is a Maori phrase, wai = water, tomo = hole, combined can also be understood as "water curtain hole". However, it is not the children of sun monkeys who emit wonderful blue light, but one of the most amazing animals in the world - [Blue Firefly Aachnocampa luminosa], which is unique on the whole earth!
Although the blue fireflies are called fireflies, they are actually a kind of dipteropod fly, and the yo-blue light is their larvae, in other words, their maggots emit
These maggots have luciferase in their bodies to shoot out light, and in the dark cave, the temptation of light is no less than that of sailors who have drifted for many years in the Age of Discovery, seeing a group of singing sirens at sea... Of course, most of the Siren Sirens in the vast sea are cannibals, and these gorgeous and alluring blue lights in the dark caves are also life-threatening traps, and whenever a small bug is tempted by the blue light, the result will fall into the deadly insect-catching silk and scream for life...
There is a row of extremely sticky round knots on these insect-catching silks, and as long as the insect silk is shaken, the glowing maggots are like spiders that perceive the trembling of the spider silk, instantly sucking the small insects alive
Waitomo Cave, where blue glowworms are located, is also an important tourist attraction in New Zealand, but blue fireflies are very vulnerable, with low humidity or poor air. They will die instantly... There used to be too many tourists here, and for a long time I couldn't see these cute glowing maggots... Of course, after unremitting efforts to protect now the "van gogh starry sky" is back
Starry Starry Night～
#Monster Calendar # 2022.08.19 Blu-ray Fireflies
