Fireflies are not flies, fireflies are beetles.

like fireflies make light.

Fireflies. Photograph by Flickr user 禾 Lin.

So here we have some natural fireflies.

That's all bioluminescence. So, like I said just like fireflies.

But I see a thousand fireflies When you come near

The trees, mangrove trees, are filled with fireflies communicating with light.

Fireflies are coleoptera, and coleoptera communicate in other ways as well.

Like I said just like fireflies. There's a flying turkey under a tree.

And so over here you need to tilt your iPad, take the fireflies out.

Now, usually if people are familiar with bioluminescence at all, it's these guys it's fireflies.

Now, usually if people are familiar with bioluminescence at all, it's these guys it's fireflies.

I decided that releasing fireflies would be my contribution to the environment here this year.

This idea of fireflies in a jar, for some reason, was always really exciting to me.

There is one case that we have begun to understand better, and it's the case of fireflies.

This bacterium has the special property that it makes light, so it makes bioluminescence, like fireflies make light.

You've seen fireflies, Madam, and glowworms and forms of life in the sea that generate their own light?

But in Southeast Asia places like Thailand or Malaysia or Borneo there's a beautiful cooperative behavior that occurs among male fireflies.

Specifically, it's male fireflies who are all flashing in perfect time together, in perfect synchrony, to reinforce a message to the females.

If you see fireflies in North America, like so many North American sorts of things, they tend to be independent operators. They ignore each other.

And we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't describe these blinking lights a world of bioluminescence, like fireflies.

And we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't describe these blinking lights a world of bioluminescence, like fireflies.

As part of a photography contest held by Tokyo Camera Club in June 2016, a number of photographers submitted amazing and surreal photographs of fireflies from around Japan.

And it really struck me as the years went by, in a very negative way, when I would go to some stream that I'd loved, and was used to walking through this field that was once filled with fireflies, and now had a strip mall or a bunch of condos on it.

And it really struck me as the years went by, in a very negative way, when I would go to some stream that I'd loved, and was used to walking through this field that was once filled with fireflies, and now had a strip mall or a bunch of condos on it.

What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball, if you could take planet Earth, with all its mountain tops and caves and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball, it would be as smooth as a billiard ball, presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around the middle.