The experience that has been on the top of my bucket list since I can remember was watching the fireflies lighting up during a Midwestern summer. The “lightning bug” or the “firefly” is in the family Lampyridae , order Coleoptera, Suborder Polyphaga, Infraorder Elateriformia, and superfamily Elateroidea. Lampyridae are medium-sized brown or black beetles, often with red and yellow coloration. A distinguishable characteristic is their ability to emit light during the mating season, which attracts the opposite sex during the evening after dusk (Hess 39). Most of the species of fireflies are bioluminescent during the larval and adult stages, except one species ( Pyropyga fenestralis ), which only emits lights during the larval stage (Hess 39). They are often nocturnal, but can be diurnal . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly#/media/File:Photuris_lucicrescens.jpg Fireflies are...
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