Firefly,Pirilampo

@Tanhks Leuba,it was a great find for us,i saw another in Porto, so i'll load it brefely,it's not so spectacular,these was the first,at nigth and with the flash the detail is another thing,thanks for you kind words
@ Thanks RichardHerrman

Sérgio obrigado meu amigo pelo teu apoio,parece que sim ele gostou da sessão fotografica:) pena não ter mais nitidez na foto para ampliar e identificar o ácaro :)
Thanks Sérgio my friend by your support,it look lilke he like the photo session :) unfortunetly the photos dont give enougth detail to enlarge the mite to id the guy:)

thanks Jgorneau,i love this spotting,we never saw nothing like this and just 2m from our back door :)

great series!!

Great spotting and photos, Antonio. You must have been so thrilled..I would love to see one of these again.

Pelo jaito ele está te aplaudindo de pé! Você merece... O ponto vermelho é um ácaro. / It looks like you are getting a standing ovation! You deserve it... The red dot is a mite.

Stellar shot, António!

thnaks Tibiprada,for the intusiasm :)

Woow!

thanks Williefromwi it's a bizarre organism,it was first time i saw one :)

wonderful spotting Antonio, I especially like the first photo in this set.

Thanks Luis :)

Great spotting

@Livan thanks ,i talk with my wife that saw it glowing before we began the photo session,so i think that gave us the prove we needed :) i change the id
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@Emma from what i read it was a firefly femmale,that put eggs,so it's dead :(
i hope she make the posture before.it's good to know that i have firefly's arround,i never se them near by,i have to go in the nigth to the weet meadow to se some :)

@ok Livan i'am going to check it now,thanks :)
@Emma maybee this "dead" normal before the pupa left the larvae

I am with Ignacio, I really think this is a Firefly larva. The head is all wrong for the ground beetle larva. I don't know what species of Fireflies (Family Lampyridae) there are in your area, but look into their larva.

Sorry to hear that the larva died.
Very cute spotting. I like the way it is standing up

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@Thanks S.Frazier for the id,i follow your link and i think is a carubus rugosus common arround here,i have a spotting of the final adult stage and i would'nt imagine that was the same animal,amazing,thanks again
@thanks Ignacio for the tip
@thanks Emma i knowed that you would like that detail :),the larvae "died" after a day of the spotting and we keeped it in a box hooping ths she transform her self in pupa like the link photos show.I have to se if there are any knowened parasite in this species larvae

amazing to see the parasite as well.

This may be a later stage larva of predaceous ground beetle (Carabidae), similar to http://www.flickr.com/photos/58213213@N0...

Looks like a firefly larvae.