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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Fireflies (Lampyridae) » Lampyrinae » Lucidotini » Photinus » pyralis Group (Photinus pyralis Group) » Photinus pyralis
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Photinus pyralis, common eastern USA firefly - Photinus pyralis - male
Copyright © 2009 terry priest

Photinus pyralis, common eastern USA firefly - Photinus pyralis - Male
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA
June 28, 2007
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Contributed by terry priest on 13 January, 2009 - 7:41pm
Last updated 27 April, 2014 - 2:05pm

Date?
I hope that you have a date for this great picture.
… Beatriz Moisset, 14 January, 2009 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

Too cool!
Nice to see you back here after a long absence. We should talk. I'm trying to work up a popular book on fireflies....
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 January, 2009 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
i took these pictures with a
i took these pictures with a point and shoot, anybody could do it, though it is a little like tai chi. go to flickr, click on a firefly and click on the group "lightning bug". there is a tutorial there on how to take the pictures.

here is the link

http://www.flickr.com/groups/lightningbug/discuss/

i have been reviewing photos for printing the better ones, and this one has to be the closest, clearest one. the original makes a wonderful 8 x 10.

better ones hopefully coming this summer. june-july
… terry priest, 14 January, 2009 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

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