May 15
📍 Location: Wake Forest, North Carolina 🗓 Date: May 13, 2025 🐾 Media: Image 🌿 Species: Common Eastern Firefly (Photinus pyralis) 📝 Notes: Bioluminescent beetle commonly found in fields, forest edges, gardens, and moist grassy habitats during warm summer evenings. Adults produce rhythmic yellow-green flashes used for communication and mate attraction, especially around dusk.
Flight is slow and drifting, often low over grass or open ground. Larvae are predatory and live in soil or leaf litter, feeding on soft-bodied invertebrates such as snails and worms.
🔗 iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/280868917
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