There is also a giant firefly with a size of more than five centimeters, they are not only huge, but also have more than 30 "small light bulbs" hanging on their bodies, so their brightness is also very amazing. Let's explore this giant firefly with me!
Summer is like a vibrant youth, and under his rendering, the animals in nature have also ushered in the most active season of the year. During the day, the sound of cicadas chirping in the trees outside the window is incessant. After nightfall, the fireflies in the grass flash a faint light, dotted with summer nights, and friends, wandering in a sea of flowers, accompanied by the oncoming breeze, chasing fireflies and playing together, fireflies and summer, like a couple of lovers, make the summer quiet night more beautiful.
Fireflies are our favorite little insects as children.
There are more than 2,000 different fireflies distributed in the world, and there are as many as 100 kinds of fireflies in China alone, because their luminescence principle is the same, the same belongs to bioluminescence, mainly relying on the luciferin and luciferase in the luciferin-emitting cells in the body, under the results of luciferase catalyzing fluorescein, a phosphatin oxide state will be produced, which is an unstable state, and when the excited state returns to the ground state, it will release photons, and initially present a fluorescent state. Therefore, these fluorescent insects belong to the genus Fluorescence.
On weekdays, our common fireflies have a body length of about 1 to 2 centimeters, and the largest is not more than 3cm. But on June 19, the staff of the Chengdu Huaxi Insect Museum, in the Zhao Gong Mountain in Dujiangyan, Chengdu, collected a giant firefly with a body length of more than 5 centimeters, after the analysis of researchers, this is an adult female firefly, during the day due to sufficient light, people will not notice it, the appearance looks like a large yellow worm, but at night, it has more than 30 luminous points on the body flashing bright light, appearing unusually eye-catching, this kind of luminous points all over the body, From a distance it looks like a strip of lights. And they are very fond of humid environments, during the day they will burrow into the dirt to avoid the sun's rays, only at night when the air humidity exceeds 90%, they will drill out of the dirt and wander around.
According to the relevant staff, this giant firefly has been found many times in China before, but because they are very similar in appearance to the same species, it has been mistaken for a large female firefly in the early years, but now people have found that this large female firefly and the large female firefly should belong to two species, because their body size gap is too large, and the size of the large female firefly is basically about 2 to 3 times that of the large female firefly. At present, the relevant information about this large firefly is still relatively lacking, so the museum has raised this firefly, and the relevant researchers will continue to study this large firefly in the follow-up work.
Could it be that the light and flying fireflies turned out to be fat flash worms?
Speaking of which, many small partners are blindfolded. Such a huge fat and fleshy firefly, it is simply ruining childhood, how is it completely different from the light flying fireflies in the childhood impression?
In fact, there is a misunderstanding here, generally speaking, the flying fireflies are basically males, although the male size is much smaller than the female, but the male will send a brighter flash signal, different types of fireflies flash signal are not the same, but this flash signal, nothing more than contains their courtship signal, when the male flashes the fluorescent signal at night, the flash frequency of these signals, the flash time will be recognized by the female, at this time the female only needs to send a flash signal from the tail to respond, The male will come to the tail.
What is more amazing is that only the tail of the female will glow before mating, but when the tail is over, the female will light up the glow points of the whole body, becoming a circular light band, which scientists believe is a deterrent to the enemy and thus protect the offspring.
Fireflies are a small insect with extremely high requirements for environmental quality, and it seems that it is difficult to see them again in the memory of those fireflies that fly in the middle of summer nights, but in recent years, with the continuous implementation of various measures to control the environment by the state, as well as the continuous improvement of public awareness of environmental protection, people seem to have begun to see more and more fireflies, and I hope that there will always be such a cute "angel" in midsummer.
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