If I had to pick my favorite insect from Evans, without a doubt it would be fireflies. When it talks about the patterns and different colors they make it seems unreal. I would love to be able to experience one of these shows one night and see for myself how amazing it really is. Just thinking about how all of the fireflies light up all together blows my mind. Such a small insect, with such a small brain, yet they can put on an amazing show. It makes you wonder how they are capable of doing that. It also makes you wonder how long they've been doing this. For hundreds of years? For millions of years?
It is also unreal how some scientist actually took the time to track each species of fireflies and see how they have patterns in how they light up. They had to have lots of extra time on their hands, and there is no way I would have the attention span to sit there and analyze that.
But probably the craziest fact about fireflies is that they are carnivores. Their larva eat snails and worms to survive. Then some adult males copy a female's flashing pattern, to attract males, then eat them. Yet they don't eat any other insects, they just eat each other. Without a doubt these are weird yet amazing little bugs.
http://www.firefly.org/facts-about-fireflies.html
http://i.imgur.com/aAJSR.jpg
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