CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What do fireflies eat?

1. What delicious food do fireflies eat?

Fireflies are carnivorous creatures. In the larval stage, they eat snails, snails, and shellfish. Fireflies can spray a toxin that paralyzes snails. Then, they inject a digestive enzyme into the snail until the snail meat is turned into delicious gravy. However, after they become adults, they only feed on dew or nectar.

2. What do fireflies like to eat?

Larvae: Firefly larvae are carnivorous, and the larvae of terrestrial fireflies mostly eat some smaller snails.

Adult: After metamorphosis into adults, most species of fireflies hardly eat or drink, and often only eat dew, honeydew or pollen and nectar; however, in South America, a few species of firefly adults will glow and prey on other types of fireflies, or small phototactic insects.

Additional information:

The general name for fireflies, which have about 2,000 species worldwide and are distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. According to statistics from several Chinese experts, there are about 100 species that have been discovered, and with the undiscovered species, there are more than 150 species in total. They glow at night and can be divided into two types: aquatic and terrestrial.

The body is small to medium, long and flat, with soft body wall and elytra. The pronotum is flat and often covers the head. The head is narrow. The eyes are semispherical, and the eyes of males are often larger than those of females. The abdomen has 7 to 8 segments, and there is a light organ at the bottom of the end. The yellow-green fluorescence is generated by the reaction of luciferin in the body and luciferase.

Fireflies are divided into two categories according to their living environment: terrestrial and aquatic. The former accounts for the majority. Terrestrial fireflies mostly live in places with high shade, lush vegetation, and high relative humidity, while aquatic fireflies have higher requirements for the environment, and the water cannot be polluted or light polluted.

3. What do fireflies eat and where do they live?

Fireflies feed on snails, not leaves.

In nature, they often live in grass and bushes near water and move around nearby.

4. What do fireflies eat?

Fireflies are small carnivorous beetles that feed on snails.

If a snail encounters any danger, it will retract its head into its hard shell, and many of its natural enemies are helpless against it.

How can a small, weak and clumsy firefly deal with it? There is a pair of jaws on the top of the firefly's head, which are as thin as hair and very sharp.

When a firefly catches a snail, it first taps the snail gently with its jaws. The snail does not take the firefly seriously at all and even thinks that being tapped a few times is very comfortable, like a massage.

The tapping of a firefly is to inject it with a kind of venom.

The snail was paralyzed without realizing it until it lost consciousness.

When the snail is poisoned, the firefly injects another liquid, turning the snail's flesh into a liquid, which it then drinks with its tubular mouth.