Chiang Mai Bugs (and Firefly Related Content)

[orang37]

Sawasdee Khrup, Kon Tee Vee,

Recently a few of you responded very kindly to my brief "essay" on my soy-run of June 26th., and thanks for the very interesting PM's in response to that lagniappe to : Khun Yangrujakkhunbenarynung and Khun Yangujakhunbenarysong.

If you don't know of John Moore's wonderful (non-commercial, educational) site "Thailand's Amazing Insects" on northern Thailand's bugs : please do visit :

http://www.thaibugs.com/

Some of the responders to my "essay" mentioned firefles, and I noticed this story in yesterday's New York Times :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30firefly.html

Truly fascinating what's going on with these creatures ! And the story of "Photuris," the vampire lightning bug who preys on other lightning bugs in order to harvest their toxic chemicals to increase their own survival, seems almost like some kind of parable !

A friend in America, responded to my "essay" with his account of meeting a beetle in Belize which is the most noctilucent insect in the world, with two spots generating a fortieth of a candle-power :

"Walking around at night near the edge of the jungle, I saw two parallel "headlight" beams moving through the grass. The beams

were moving, were very bright, and projected several inches in advance of their owner, a small beetle, which I later discovered was Pyrophorus Noctilucus, the "Fire Beetle""

For more on this 4cm. long beauty see :

http://biological-diversity.info/invertebrates.htm

(scroll down the page to read about Pyrophorus noctilucus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) and see pictures)

I'll bugger off now.

best, ~o:37;

[StevieH]

this is absolutely what posts on this forum should be about. we get oodles of fireflies flitting about our place in chiang khian and they are a beautiful sight to behold. thanks for the links khun orang.

[threedot]

I don't get it... where's the restaurant advert?

[T_Dog]

A timely post.... Over the past few days we have had these beautiful dragon flies in the backyard. They have clear wings (look closely in the images below) with black and yellow. You can stand amongst them and they fly all around you, doing their mating dance or perhaps feeding on mosquitoes. I tried for the longest time to photograph them flying but could not do it, so had settle for a stationary shot. As they flew around me, they seemed to be looking at me, and from the shots I did get, I think they were. Very fascinating to watch how they flew in concert with each other.

[kimincm]

Sawasdee Khrup, Kon Tee Vee,

Recently a few of you responded very kindly to my brief "essay" on my soy-run of June 26th., and thanks for the very interesting PM's in response to that lagniappe to : Khun Yangrujakkhunbenarynung and Khun Yangujakhunbenarysong.

If you don't know of John Moore's wonderful (non-commercial, educational) site "Thailand's Amazing Insects" on northern Thailand's bugs : please do visit :

http://www.thaibugs.com/

Some of the responders to my "essay" mentioned firefles, and I noticed this story in yesterday's New York Times :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30firefly.html

Truly fascinating what's going on with these creatures ! And the story of "Photuris," the vampire lightning bug who preys on other lightning bugs in order to harvest their toxic chemicals to increase their own survival, seems almost like some kind of parable !

A friend in America, responded to my "essay" with his account of meeting a beetle in Belize which is the most noctilucent insect in the world, with two spots generating a fortieth of a candle-power :

"Walking around at night near the edge of the jungle, I saw two parallel "headlight" beams moving through the grass. The beams

were moving, were very bright, and projected several inches in advance of their owner, a small beetle, which I later discovered was Pyrophorus Noctilucus, the "Fire Beetle""

For more on this 4cm. long beauty see :

http://biological-diversity.info/invertebrates.htm

(scroll down the page to read about Pyrophorus noctilucus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) and see pictures)

I'll bugger off now.

best, ~o:37;

Thanks for the great links, a far cry from your usual verbose ramblings.

[rodcourt49]

A timely post.... Over the past few days we have had these beautiful dragon flies in the backyard. They have clear wings (look closely in the images below) with black and yellow. You can stand amongst them and they fly all around you, doing their mating dance or perhaps feeding on mosquitoes. I tried for the longest time to photograph them flying but could not do it, so had settle for a stationary shot. As they flew around me, they seemed to be looking at me, and from the shots I did get, I think they were. Very fascinating to watch how they flew in concert with each other.

P'raps dey were gonna poo on ya

[noudb]

One of the most beautiful ones I encountered in Doi Tung, and actually it was quietly sitting down