CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Where do fireflies lay their eggs?

1. What kind of insect is this and what is its scientific name?

This is the larva of the firefly, also known as night light, Jingtian, Ru Yiyao, Yezhao, Liuying, Xiaozhu, Yaoye, etc. It belongs to the family Lampyridae of the order Coleoptera. It is a small beetle. Because its tail can emit fluorescence, it is called firefly. After the female and male firefly adults mate, the female firefly will lay eggs on the wet ground. The eggs are usually small and white, round, like a ping-pong ball, and sometimes vary depending on the species. The time for the eggs to hatch varies from species to species, and generally they will hatch after about two weeks. The eggs of fireflies also have the ability to glow. After the eggs of fireflies hatch, they enter the larval stage. Generally speaking, the larvae look very similar to caterpillars, with a flat and long body that can glow. They usually feed on snails, shellfish or earthworms. During their growth, they will go through 5-7 molts and then pupate. When firefly larvae grow to the stage of pupation, they will find soft caves and cracks in the soil near their habitat to build pupal chambers, where they will pupate to reduce the danger of inconvenience caused by the pupal stage. The pupal stage usually lasts about one or two weeks, and some firefly species have a pupal stage that lasts as long as a month. Aquatic firefly larvae will also crawl to the soil shore when they are about to pupate and pupate in the soil on the shore. They can communicate through the language of light (the light of fireflies), transmit information to each other. Male and female fireflies of the same species can communicate with each other in the language of light to complete the courtship process. Female fireflies will send on, off, on, off signals to males at very precise time intervals. Although this time interval is very short and difficult for humans to distinguish, fireflies can accurately judge each other's intentions without any effort. When the male receives the light language signal from the female, it will immediately send a corresponding signal in response. Then, they communicate with each other with this specific light signal, and finally fly together and form a mate. It can be seen that the light emitted by fireflies has special significance for their reproduction.

2. How are firefly eggs laid?

When the male insect finds the flash, it will fly over to mate immediately. After mating, the female insect usually lays eggs on shrubs, weeds or rocks that are close to the water surface and shaded. The female insect can lay thousands of eggs in its lifetime, but strangely, it lays these eggs in 5-6 different places. Perhaps it is to effectively preserve the offspring. The egg shell is soft when it is just laid, and it takes about a week to harden. After about two weeks, the development of the larvae can be seen from the outside of the egg shell, and the eggs begin to hatch after three weeks. The larvae usually hatch at midnight. It will bite the eggs with its upper jaws and then break out of the eggs. The hatching process takes about half an hour.

3. Where do fireflies like to live?

Fireflies are distributed all over my country, especially in the southern and southeastern coastal provinces. Fireflies are holometabolous insects that like to live in warm, humid, watery weeds, gullies and reed areas, and feed on the meat of mollusks such as snails and snails.

The female adults of this insect often lay eggs on moist rotten grass, rotten wood or soil. They can lay hundreds of eggs at a time. The eggs are soft-shelled when first laid, but gradually harden after a few days and begin to hatch after 3 weeks.

Hatching usually takes place at noon. After hatching, the larvae burrow into the water, hiding under rocks or in mud during the day and coming out to forage at night.

Its juvenile stage is relatively long, generally about 1 year, and some can exceed 2 years. When it is time to pupate, the larvae crawl to the shore and make a cocoon chamber with mud and sand. Generally, pupation occurs in May, and it will emerge as an adult after about 2 weeks.

The adults mate and lay eggs in June, from which larvae hatch.

The larvae are gray-brown in color, with pointed ends, flat top and bottom, shaped like a rice grain, and the tail end can also emit a faint light.

Most female insects do not have wings and cannot fly. Their appearance is similar to that of larvae, but they can emit stronger light.

The flickering fireflies that people see on summer nights are male fireflies looking for females. At this time, after the female insects discover the light of the male insects, they will climb into the grass and flash on the grass stems. After the male and female insects have communicated with each other through light several times, the male insects will follow the light emitted by the female insects and fly down to mate with the female insects.

After mating, both male and female insects dim their light and return to the grass. Not long after, the female insect lays hundreds of eggs that emit weak fluorescence.

4. What is the answer to Yin Yanguo’s Firefly?

①. The development process of fireflies: four processes.

5. What insects lay eggs in wildfires?

Answer: Fireflies lay their eggs in fire.

1. Aquatic fireflies: Most of the larvae live in small mountain streams with clear water all year round, or in paddy fields with muddy bottom, including yellow-margined fireflies, yellow-breasted black-winged fireflies and striped-back fireflies.

2. Semi-aquatic fireflies: The larvae live on wet revetments or rock walls where clear streams flow. The larvae of the red-winged firefly are the only semi-aquatic fireflies. The larvae live in groups, sometimes hundreds of them live together on wet rock walls.

3. Terrestrial fireflies: The larvae usually live in the shade, on slightly moist ground, among fallen leaves or on grass in mountainous areas, and some live in open grasslands.

In addition, most fireflies are terrestrial, including: Taiwan window firefly, red-breasted black-winged firefly, patterned firefly, orange firefly, pseudo-patterned firefly, Souder's veined firefly and other fireflies.

6. Will firefly eggs be drowned?

Generally no, but there are exceptions. After the female and male fireflies mate, the female fireflies will lay eggs on the moist ground.

Aquatic fireflies lay eggs in the damp and dark mosses on the shore. The eggs are sticky and can attach to the mosses. The eggs usually hatch after about two weeks. If they are submerged for a short period of time during this period, it will not hinder hatching. However, if they are submerged for a long time, they will not be able to breathe normally and will fail to hatch. Fireflies are divided into two categories according to their living environment: terrestrial and aquatic, with the former accounting for the majority.

Terrestrial fireflies mostly live in places with high shade, lush vegetation and high relative humidity. Aquatic fireflies have higher requirements for the environment. The water cannot be polluted and cannot be polluted by light.

Firefly larvae are also divided into aquatic and terrestrial. After hatching, the aquatic larvae will crawl into the water on their own and generally need six metamorphosis before entering the pupal stage.

The larvae like to eat snails and crustaceans. After capturing their prey, they will first anesthetize it and then inject digestive juices into its body to break down the meat.