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Summer Flings
From: Natural History
Date: 20030701
Author:Lloyd, James E; Lewis, Sara
Firefly courtship, sex, and death
The fireflies, twinkling among leaves,/make the stars wonder.
-Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
As light slips from the summer sky, an army of male fireflies awakens from its daytime slumber. One by one, the insects march up blades of grass, waiting until dusk to lift off like miniature helicopters into the night. Yet these fliers aren't bent on military conquest; their goal is simple evolutionary survival. The fireflies we study-bioluminescent members of the genus Photinus-devote every night of their short adult lives to courtship, first broadcasting their ...
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