Who would have thought that the little beetle would shape a lighting engineer's dream? Yes, some beetles called fireflies are bright lights, their light has no heat. The light of the firefly is not at all warm to the touch. Human electric lamps lose much of their energy as heat, but the Creator's living lamps convert 100% of their energy into light.
But why do these living lamps, like the firefly, turn on their incandescent lamps? Why is it? It's true that bright insects intrigue humans, but the real goal is to find the opposite sex of their own species in the dark, so that they can mate.
The male firefly of a species common in North America flies during the hottest part of the night and flashes with its light, usually because it is about to rise and fall. The light color of the firefly is predominantly yellow; but in some species it is rather greenish, bluish or orange.
The Firefly lamp works with an association called Luciferian. When oxygen comes into contact with oxygen, a catalyst called luciferase ignites the process that produces light without heat.
Each species of firefly (there are around 2,000) has its own characteristic blinking pattern. It is as characteristic as the song of different birds. When the female firefly sees the glow she is looking for, she responds. A female firefly rarely responds to light from a species other than her own. Sometimes, however, a woman may respond once to a male flash similar to hers, but if the duration of the next flash is just not correct, she is not "active" and more.
When the female firefly sees the stingray she is looking for, she keeps the light on at the correct distance until the male catches up with her and mating occurs.
However, the firefly lighthouse does not always cause the species to spread. There is a woman of the kind who is a seductive carnivore. It can mimic the ultra-fast response of many females of other species and attract the males, after which they are captured and eaten.
Unlike the glittering fireflies unique to North America, glowing insects are found in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. These fireflies can change their flash pattern to flash together. This allows them to light entire trees with the regularity of neon lights.
Watch a visitor from Mindanao, Philippines, describe what he saw: "There were two trees the size of an apple tree and maybe 30 meters apart, and every night these fireflies were flashing in sync, the first tree would light up then the next second There must have been several thousand insects on each tree, but the timing was so perfect that rarely, if ever, a single firefly would blink at the wrong moment ... it looked so weird and it had an effect ... so beautiful that I thought it was one of the most amazing things about the Philippines. "
Male fireflies are believed to combine their glow to give females spectacular messages about their location. It is not known how each firefly can harmonize its lightning with that of nearby men, but most of them flash together, as if lit by a single button.
Another mystery presented by these living lamps concerns the so-called “railroad mask” in South America. This caterpillar on a cockroach is about seven centimeters long and has unusual lighting equipment. There is a large red light on the head, one of the few insects known to emit red light. Along the body are eleven pairs of green and white candles. When all the lights are on, the mask looks like a fully lit train. The red mask of the railway mask is independent, so it can light up when other lights are on or it can glow red when other lights are off.
What is the secret of the railway mask? It's the same kind of secret as the firefly. But the red light is different. What do you mean? Is there a filter in the light that makes it look red? No, the light itself is a dark red color. How this happens is one of the things that science doesn't fully understand.
Scientists hope that one day they can take advantage of the efficient lighting principles of the Creator's living lamps.
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