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Luciola is a genus of flashing fireflies [1] in the family Lampyridae. They are especially well known from Japan and are often called Japanese fireflies, but their members range farther into Asia and reach southern Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, among other countries) and Africa.
Fireflies have featured in human culture around the world for centuries. [55] In Japan, the emergence of fireflies ( Japanese : hotaru ) signifies the anticipated changing of the seasons; [ 56 ] firefly viewing is a special aesthetic pleasure of midsummer, celebrated in parks that exist for that one purpose. [ 57 ]
Pyractomena angulata is a species of firefly in the family of beetles known as Lampyridae. [2] [3] [4] [5] It is found in North America and is the state insect of ...
Fireflies flash or glow to warn other creatures that they are too toxic to eat, and they also light up seeking sex, scientists said. The males flash their pick-up lines and the females answer back, with each species having a special flash and color pattern and time they fly that helps to identify them.
This is a list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because they help define a national identity or provide a common reference point for that country's culture.
Pteroptyx is a genus of fireflies in the subfamily Luciolinae found in Southeast Asia. It has long been noted for the ability to perform synchronous flashing, though not all species synchronize. [1] These synchronizing species have been found on so-called 'firefly trees' and created a growing firefly-watching tour industry in some regions.
Fireflies is a novel by Shiva Naipaul originally published in 1970. It was his first book, a comic novel set in Trinidad.In an essay in An Unfinished Journey, Naipaul described how in 1968 as a final year student at Oxford University studying Chinese, he had been moved to write down a sentence, which proved to be the beginning of his first novel, which he then worked on for the next two years.
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