When you saw this beautiful scene, what did you think? Disney's Fantastic Fairy? Ant Story? Or Ant-Man? That bright yellow dot of starlight is like a star in the vast universe! But not...
These yellow beautiful stars are actually the beautiful farts of some small beings, and the thoughts have begun to drift, haven't they?
This little life is the firefly, the Coleoptera, or a family of beetles we usually call, and there are more than two thousand species in the world.
Why do fireflies glow? Well, why do people dress up? Of course, it is all a truth, attracting the opposite sex to reproduce.
Some fireflies only male farts will glow, and some species of male and female will glow, through a flash of different rhythms of "light language", to convey the love between each other. When all the fireflies in the forest are immersed in the ocean of love, the whole forest is a brilliant starry sky, which makes people feel an inexplicable emotion.
Fireflies have specialized luminescent cells that contain two substances, luciferin and luciferase. Fluorescein, catalyzed by luciferase, reacts with oxygen to produce oxidized fluorescein in the excited state, which releases photon luminescence when it returns from the excited state back to the ground state.
95% of the energy in the firefly reaction is converted into light, and only a very small part is used to emit heat, so although its fart is so bright, you don't have to worry about it being burned. Even human beings who claim to be intelligent beings cannot produce light sources that can achieve such a high luminous efficiency at present.
However, these glowing farts, although beautiful, will also be targeted by bad people. Sorry, don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about cute little friends who like to catch fireflies, but a female of the genus Demon Fireflies. They can imitate another firefly to send a whole set of flashing light signals, and when the male worms come to the appointment, they will be cruelly eaten by them. The world of fireflies is so sinister.
Fireflies are a symbol of beauty in our minds, but what you may not know is that fireflies are actually carnivores, feeding on small snails, slugs, earthworms and even shells and screws. In particular, the larvae of fireflies are carnivores, and some of them may convert to Buddhism and feed on plant nectar or pollen.
Well, we already know what fireflies should know, and we know what we shouldn't know, and the last question is: will these beautiful little farts shine during the day?