"They’re talking - as animals usually are - about sex"
I don't see much of a difference, human.
"Amorous fireflies get boost from wet weather in capital; Scientists say this is bug’s brightest showing in years" by David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post | July 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - Across the country, scientists worry that firefly numbers have been driven down by lawn pesticides and sprawling concrete. Also, chemical companies have paid a per-bug bounty to get the chemicals in their tails, which are used in scientific research....
They’re talking - as animals usually are - about sex. The bugs in the air are all male, each flashing out a pattern distinctive to his species.... Their audience is down in the grass: females who wait an interval, specific to their species, before responding with a blink or two.
“This tells the male, ‘There’s a female here, and let’s go down an investigate further and maybe mate,’ ’’ said Jonathan Copeland, a biology professor at Georgia Southern University.
:-)
I love life.
Maybe. The life of a male firefly is not easy.
Neither is that of a human male when you come to think about it....
In some cases, the come-hither responses are a deadly ruse, from a larger species that has cracked its prey’s code. When the male flies down to investigate, this femme fatale firefly will eat it, extracting chemicals it needs to ward off the things that might eat it.
In other cases, the males have trouble finding their mates in the forest of grass blades. Or the females don’t flash back at all.
You understand that feeling, right, guy?
Recent research has shown they sometimes prefer males who flash longer and faster - which, for reasons involving the mechanics of firefly sex, may be better mates.
So where does a firefly buy Extenze, huh??
They’re all working with a time limit.
Yeah, and mine is about done judging by this limp pud between my legs.
Fireflies spend years as larvae underground and then emerge to fly only for a week or two.
Grab all the booty you can, man.
Their only mission is to reproduce before they die, and more than half of males will fail.
We are no more evolved than a firefly?
Some flies aren't as loving....
"New fruit fly threat in Southern Calif." by Associated Press | August 1, 2009
LOS ANGELES - How the fly arrived is not known, but the department’s mantra of “don’t pack a pest’’ focuses on the likelihood that travelers bring them in on plants and foods that haven’t been inspected....
In other words, globalism. Another side "benefit," folks.
In Southern California, the foreign flies find a hospitable climate. La Verne, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, was a citrus-growing region in the early 20th century but is now a residential and college town. The discovery of the white striped fruit fly opens the latest front in California’s decades-long battles with nonnative bugs that threaten its agriculture....
Expect food costs to continue to rise.
