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lsanderson) wrote2009-06-30 04:52 am
lsanderson) wrote2009-06-30 04:52 am
Dirty Stories about.... Fireflies
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MATING In many fireflies, pairs stay coupled for hours while the male, lower, gives the female a protein package injected with sperm, called a nuptial gift.
Blink Twice if You Like Me
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: June 29, 2009
MATING In many fireflies, pairs stay coupled for hours while the male, lower, gives the female a protein package injected with sperm, called a nuptial gift.
Blink Twice if You Like Me
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: June 29, 2009
LINCOLN, Mass. — Sara Lewis is fluent in firefly. On this night she walks through a farm field in eastern Massachusetts, watching the first fireflies of the evening rise into the air and begin to blink on and off. Dr. Lewis, an evolutionary ecologist at Tufts University, points out six species in this meadow, each with its own pattern of flashes. More