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Researchers have found seduction and deceit in the coded flashing of fireflies
- gojomo 17y ago"Photuris kills other fireflies only to retrieve bad-tasting chemicals from their bodies, which it uses to protect itself from predators." Sometimes big companies eat smaller ones to reuse the bitter patents they contain, too.
- paraschopra 17y agoOn a related on, I once did a project where I simulated the synchronization of firefly flashes. In south east asia, 10000s of fireflies (of a particular species) synchronize their flashes and from a distance (at night) the colony on a tree looks like a big flashing bulb. It is quite awesome. This is the link to my project: http://paraschopra.com/projects/firefly/ http://paraschopra.com/projects/firefly/ This is the link to downloadable Python code: http://paraschopra.com/projects/firefly/firefly.zip http://paraschopra.com/projects/firefly/firefly.zip