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Firefly

Firefly The girls put them in the hair, and the boys are kept under glass to glow all night, but in the morning they released them to freedom. Firefly is a winged insect that has the ability to chemically produced cold light, green, yellow or pale red.

Substances that produce light are enzyme of the luciferase, and in the chemical reaction is involved magnesium ions, adenosine triphosphate and oxygen. The light produced in this way is the most efficient of all known, because almost all resultant energy is emitted as light. Fireflies with its “lanterns” attract partners or prey. In the world there are over 2,000 species of fireflies, and some of them have the ability to synchronize their blinking in the trees and prepare a little spectacle to observers.

Firefly