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""Twenty-six species of the beetle family Lampyridae, commonly known as fireflies, paapaskile'fi in the Shawnee language, have been identified in the water-worn hollows and foothills of Appalachian Ohio; nineteen communicate with bioluminescent courtship displays. These flash codes--which vary in color, pattern, and duration, and by habitat, hour of night, and time of season--appear for a brief moment on warm nights in late spring and summer, at the very end of a firefly's one- to two-year life cycle. Male fireflies broadcast their signals, which females see and respond to from discreet places; if she answers his call, they will mate, and she will lay eggs, before their deaths. I maintained a watch of these displays over four successive summers, from 2019 to 2022." "Recorded with an exposure ranging from several seconds to an hour ..."--Page 76."@en
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""Twenty-six species of the insect family Lampyridae, commonly known as fireflies, have been identified in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio. For a brief moment at the very end of their lives, nineteen of these species communicate with silent, bioluminescent displays of wildly diverse flash patterns and colors--a kaleidoscopic procession of light varying in precise accordance to habitat, season and time of night. Since 2019, Samuel James has recorded these dialects of light with long exposures, exploring one luminous facet of life in the temperate deciduous forests of southern Ohio as it evolves through seasonal change atop eroded mountains and the stratified sediments of ancient seas." -- Publisher's website (viewed October 27, 2023)."@en
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