The Big Dipper Firefly

Description:

Other names: Common Eastern Firefly, and Pyralis Firefly. Adult size: ( length ) 9mm. to 15 mm. Identifying colors: black, red, and yellow. General description: lighting, glow, light green, helpful, and flying. These friendly beetles, delight children and adults alike, with there bioluminescence. The yellow-green glow, comes from there abdomen. Chemical reactions inside the firefly, create visible light, without generating any heat. The intensity of the light, and the frequency that it flashes, is controlled by the firefly's nervous system. Larvae feed on earthworms, slugs and snails, but adults are not known to eat at all. This firefly, was one eight of an inch wide, and five eights of an inch long. It had a black head, and two compound eyes. It had two, segmented antennae, and six, jointed legs. Looks like there were three claws, at the end of each leg. Thorax, was red, black, and brown, in color. It had dark brown, outer wing covers, with a medium tan color, running all around the outer edge. Underneath this insect, there was an area, near the end of the abdomen, that lit up. This area was a yellow-white color. Underneath, the abdomen was black in color. This insect had a: head, thorax, and abdomen. This insect had four wings.

Habitat:

They can be found in open fields, meadows, parks, gardens, front yards and back yards.

Notes:

I went outside, at 9:00 a.m. in the morning, to look for insects, to photograph. When I was outside, I noticed a small insect, resting on a concrete wall, that was on the outside of my house. This insect, was one eight of an inch wide, and five eights of an inch long. It had a black head, and two compound eyes. It had two, segmented antennae, and six, jointed legs. Looks like there were three claws, on the end of each leg. The thorax, was red, black, and brown in color. It had dark brown, outer wing covers, with a medium tan color, running all around the outer edge. Underneath this insect, there was an area, near the end of the abdomen, that lit up. This area was a yellow-white color. Underneath, the abdomen, was black in color. It had a head, thorax, and abdomen. It also had four wings. I knew that this insect was a firefly, because the light area that was near the end of its abdomen, lit up, on three different occassions.