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Posted Dec 20, 2008 by Still_WRD
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Author: Still_WRD - U1665007
This one's along the same lines as Werewolf, but I like that there's an actual animal that does this.
The fireflies you see blinking in the air of a summer night are males. Each species has a different code they blink. Females lie in the grass and blink and if the male flies over and sees his code being blinked up at him, he goes down to mate.
"Photuris is a genus of fireflies wherein are the femme fatale fireflies of North America. This common name refers to the fact that the females of these predatory beetles mimic the light signals of other firefly species' males, to attract, kill, and eat them."
P.S. Huzzah for wikipedia.
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| | | Subject: A45100027 - Photuris
Posted Jan 7, 2009 by LL Waz
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 | | Oh, I do like this. Fantastic subject and neatly, concisely done.
The first two lines might be better alluding to fire-fly practices rather than stating them, but you'd have to weigh thae poetic gain against the risk of readers not getting the story.
Perhaps, since this is online, a dmitri-style link within the poem to background info would work.
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