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06-Mar-08, 10:05 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Townsville, QLD Age/Gender: 18  | | |
Heya guys..
Brief story as to how I found these insects.
Was walking along a road (no lights around) and saw a tiny blue flash of light at the edge of the road, halfway up some long grass. I thought i imagined it, so kept walking, but kept watching that spot. again, the tiny blue light flashed. I have a small mag light on my keyring, so walked over and put my light on the grass; couldnt see anything. but i was certain i saw it, and a friend who was with me also said they saw it. we continued walking, wondering what it could of been. then i spotted another light, this time in short grass, so i walked over, waited for it to flash again, and shone the light on teh grass and briefly saw a tiny insect. i kept walking, and saw another flash, this time a green one. again, i went over, and this time saw the insect in detail;
it was really tiny, looked like some type of beetle, had black "wings" and on the outer edge of these it had a lighter grey strip outlining them. the front part of this critter was a reddish brown colour.
does anyone have any idea what it is??
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06-Mar-08, 10:13 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Townsville, QLD Age/Gender: 18 | | | | ok determined its a glow worm, still looking it up to find out what type!
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06-Mar-08, 10:21 PM
|  | Back in 5 mins Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: NTH QLD Gender:  | | | | I have always refered to them as fireflies, They look like a small elongated beetle, I get them all the time out at Pallarenda... |
06-Mar-08, 11:46 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Townsville, QLD Age/Gender: 18 | | | ahh ok, cool. I never knew they were here, was surprised to see them! These ones i found at the uni  thanks!
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07-Mar-08, 01:07 PM
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07-Mar-08, 01:28 PM
|  | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | | Firefly - sounds like a red and black one (the common ones).
When I was at Port Douglas during Christmas I went to the beach and there was a tree as bright as a Christmas Tree totally lit up with maybe thousands of fireflies - couldn't judge if they were the red and blacks or the other one which is white and black.
Still an amazing sight!
I was lead to believe glow worms don't exist in Australia... But maybe I am wrong. Certainly do not exist up hbere in the TFNQ. | |
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