#photinus

[sarahmackattack]

I was asked to make a 4 inch square painting for a charity event for a kids program and so uhhh I made this idk I tried my best 😅

[flighty-flycatcher]

📍 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

[every-day-creechur]

Winter Firefly Photinus corruscus

It is common throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. They can be found in a variety of habitats, most commonly in maturing hardwood forests, yards, and open parks with large trees.

image by Barry Cottum

[politoke]

[ketrinadrawsalot]

JuneBug: Celestial Firefly (Photinus pyralis)

[chemistfail]

bug hours

[onenicebugperday]

@scalpelfightclub submitted: Any idea what this fella could be? Had the absolute faintest glow visible at times, not like a firefly level of glow but about 1/10 that. Maine!

It glows like a firefly because it is a firefly! Specifically I think the larva of a Photuris species. Females are predatory, so they mimic the light flashes of females of other species in order to draw in males to eat :)

[brbaltering]

attack for @photinus