Carlee Olsen Contract 8 classification Kingdom Animalia animals Phylum Athropoda athropods Class Insecta insects Order Coleoptera beetles Family Lampyridae firefly beetles ID: 284045
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Firefly
Carlee Olsen
Contract [8]Slide2
classification
Kingdom
Animalia
(animals)
Phylum
Athropoda
(
athropods
)
Class
Insecta
(insects)
Order
Coleoptera
(beetles)
Family
Lampyridae
(firefly beetles)
Genus
Photinus
(firefly
genus)
Species
P.
pyralis
(lightening bug)Slide3
OrganizationSlide4
Reproduction
The male firefly will flash its light, and wait for two seconds. If a female does not flash its light back, the male will move to a different place and flash and wait for two seconds.
Once a male attracts a female, fireflies will reproduce sexually, and lay
eggs.Slide5
Response
Fireflies respond to the environment because if it is a full moon, or if there is too much light, a firefly will not try to attract a mate by flashing its light since the mate will not see it.Slide6
Growth
Firefly
eggs hatch
into a larvae
.
The larvae glows
in the dark,
and
are called glowworms. The glowworms
eat
other insects, snails, and slugs.
Adult fireflies
also eat other
insects, pollen,
and other flower
parts.Slide7
How does a firefly
produce light?
Fireflies produce a chemical reaction inside their bodies that allows them to light up. This type of light production is called
bioluminescence. When
oxygen combines with calcium,
a chemical is made, making the light be
produced.
A firefly’s light is cold, without
a lot of energy being lost as heat.
This happens
because if a firefly's
light got hot,
the firefly would not survive the experience.
A firefly controls the beginning and end of the chemical reaction,
and
the start and stop of its
light, by
adding oxygen to the other
inner chemicals
needed to produce light.
When
oxygen is available, the light
glows,
and when it is not available, the light goes out. Insects do not have lungs,
so they transport
oxygen from outside
their
body to the interior cells
with a
complex series
of smaller
tubes known as
tracheoles
. Slide8
Compare and Contrast
Lightning Bug
Lady Bug
The lightning bug will produce a light in order to attract other beetles of its kind in order to sexually reproduce.
Lady bugs release
pheromones to attract a mate. Pheromones are like a perfume to lure in a mate.
Lightning bugs and lady bugs are the same because they are both a part of the beetle family which means they have hard wings that serve as a shell.