Headlights / Fire

Headlight / fire beetles (Pyrophorinii) are a group of bioluminescent beetles native to the new world. They are often considered the most bioluminescent insects currently known.

Luciferin, luciferase, and oxyluciferin are compound classifications and not specific to three molecules.

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[NAJALU]

Luciferin is such a badass chemical name.

[natanaelmartinez]

In my 34 years i have never seen these beetles before. Love nature!

[thetwitchywitchy]

wow!! i’ve never seen these!! that’s such a gorgeous adaptation!

[martian_heidegger]

Are the beetles the ones reading the texts?

[saryn]

Bro i used to catch so many of these when i was a kid! We kept them in glass bottles during the night and released them by morning.Poor bettles, lol.

[UnforgettablemomentsM]

Looks like nightmare fuel for a minute 😂

[absolutemaniac]

Woah! Click beetles are the best. You've always got the best information on arthropods.

[oliverascher]

I recently learned about these when I was reading an article about bat conservationist Merlin Tuttle, who you might be familiar with. Apparently he and his crew spent hours setting up cameras outside of this tree to record emerging bats, but some of these beetles showed up, and their light made it so that you couldn’t see the bats.

[MRG]

We have lightening bugs, well that’s what we call them in MD. First time seeing the beetles though, pretty cool, thanks for sharing.

[LordMondegrene]

Maybe cavemen used these bugs to see, and paint on walls miles deep in caves.
That would explain the lack of fire soot on the ceilings.

Buglites

[NewMessage]

They never use their turn signals, either.

[PeppersnGlowworms]

🤩
They seem to enter the invertebrate keeping hobby in the USA...

[wradd]

Question: why do we have fewer bioluminescent land creature things in the western part of the US?

[RawShogun]

If cavemen had EDC kits these would be in them lol.

[KhaiRey-txvy]

It looks so distusiting when making light

[victorcabrera]

is this an example of convergent evolution?

[SkinnyGuy_offc]

Idk why these bettles try to impress mates but all their species have it, like, your not gonna be impressed with a thing everyone have

[thegenrl]

Are these related to springtails from the US? They look like huge spring tails

[Iwantapistash]

Why do I kind of want to eat the beetle?

[iSGionotGeo]

Out of all the names they choose luci huh?