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Male/Female is a 15.5-meter (51 ft) tall hollow stainless steel sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky standing at the entrance to Penn Station in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts intersecting colossal male and female forms with pulsing light-emitting diode light.
A typical Photinus is a "lightning-bug firefly" (as opposed to the so-called "glowworm firefly") because it emits light in its winged stage. Both male and female adults produce mating signals with an abdominal light organ or "lantern". Members of Photinus are called "rover fireflies" because typically males fly about singly, not in groups ...
A larviform female with light-emitting organs on her abdomen. Unlike actual larvae, she has compound eyes. Fireflies are beetles and in many aspects resemble other beetles at all stages of their life cycle, undergoing complete metamorphosis. [6] A few days after mating, a female lays her fertilized eggs on or just below the surface of the ground.
Railroad worms get their name from the glowing spots along their body. They look like train car windows illuminated at night. These worms are the larva or the larviform female adults of the ...
Photinus pyralis, also known by the common names the common eastern firefly [3] or big dipper firefly, [4] and sometimes called a "lightning bug", [5] is a species of flying beetle. An organ on its abdomen is responsible for its light production. [ 6 ]
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Lightning rods have been installed to divert strikes that could damage the statue. In fact, lightning struck right before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, damaging the statue’s head and a fingertip.
Light Up, often stylised as Light Up!, is a painted steel plate public art sculpture created by American artist Tony Smith and dedicated on May 15, 1974. The sculpture is located in the University of Pittsburgh 's Forbes Quadrangle between Posvar Hall , the Barco Law Building , and Hillman Library .