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firefly

being eaten by a predatory stink bug

LT +_1cm

Observation for the firefly. A firefly was eating a soldier beetle and a harvestman came up, and based on the appearance of the soldier beetle after it left, managed to grab its head

Female

Low-flying, half second flashes fading out (not abruptly ending as lucicrescens) and given at 3 second intervals. Atlantic White Cedar and Loblolly bottomland.

The "bottom" beetle. Strange interaction: a Lyconotus lateralis male apparently attempting to mate with a Photinus pyralis female on a common milkweed flower cluster

Photuris firefly feeding on Chauliognathus marginatus on common milkweed leaf. Note milkweed pollinia attached to prey near its head.

Whatever is attacking/eating the pacific sideband.

Strange aquatic invertebrate, yellow segmented body, it was scraping the elongated limb on the end of it along algae on a rock

Serranía del Burro

A large amount of fireflies, found in the woods.

Feeding on a slug

Found on edge of wooded area, flashing

Copulating pair, plus 2

Low flying, single flash (1 second flash with ~3.75 seconds in between)

Esta pegada en una palmera de cocos

Canibalismo / Cannibalism

Eating a dead snail.

Firefly larvae

This insect was eating a snail.

Eating a snail! Yum yum!

submerged in a clear/slow flowing creek

Eating escargot.

being preyed upon by a Bee-mimic Robber Fly
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123410095