Fireflies provide light show in Tennessee
Happening right now, and for the next few days the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee will light up as P. Carolinus fireflies begin to blink in beautiful, astonishing unison. The fireflies, who can sense when their neighbor fireflies are flashing and attempt to flash before them, send waves of light to cascading down the Tennessee hillsides. One of the best spots to see them is in one small area, near the Little River Trailhead in Elkmont, TN." BoingBoing
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this vid is amazing. can't that the firflies can sense when their neighbors are blinking. i thought is was cool.
totally amazing! awesomeness!! i want to go see it now!
how can they sense when their neighbors are going to blink, and why do they try to light up before their neighbors?
Here are some still photos from a reporter on the scene.
I know that fireflies don't always synconized blink. Why do they sometimes blonk together and other times individually. Does this phenomenon only happen in Tennessee? I have a wooded area near my home in Minnesota and I don't ever remember them blinking in unison.
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