Grace Jones

They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.

Model

Bradley Chicho

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

English Poet

Marek Hlasko

I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.

Polish Writer

Fireflies are usually mentioned in natural settings and less often in urban environments.

Natural Context

Fireflies are commonly associated with warm summer evenings.

Summer Evenings

Fireflies can symbolize hope, guidance, and inspiration in literature.

Symbolism

 sea and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and a half hours on the way down it's a perfectly positively pitch-black world and we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't describe these blinking lights a world of bioluminescence like fireflies dr.

Underwater astonishments...

 and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and half hours on the way down, it's a perfectly positively pitch-black world. And we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't these blinking lights -- a world of bioluminescence, like fireflies.

 but these organisms can turn parts of their body into glow sticks. It's like nature made them ready to rave. Why? In one way or another, bioluminescence improves a living thing's chances of survival. Take the firefly. It's ability to glow green helps it attract a mate on a warm, summer night,

The brilliance of...

 It was breathtaking. Now, usually if people are familiar with bioluminescence at all, it's these guys; it's fireflies. And there are a few other land-dwellers that can make light -- some insects, earthworms, fungi -- but in general, on land, it's really rare. In the ocean, it's the rule

Edith Widder: Glowing...

 We would really like to have a deeper insight into how this works and to understand, you know, exactly where this organization comes from. How do the rules give rise to the patterns? There is one case that we have begun to understand better, and it's the case of fireflies.

Steven Strogatz: How...

 characters to tell the species apart generally the habitat where we find photinus carolinas is in these low-lying moist areas where there's kind of a relatively clear understory so that the fireflies can visually see each other it

Watch: Fireflies Glowing...

 can download we need to put the LED light the pattern from that firefly in our computer-aided design okay we need optimization tools this is one that's based on bones and how they how your bone responds to stress and

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball,

Rives: Reinventing the...

 is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the world was not much greater than that of jellyfish or fireflies or woodpeckers. Today, in contrast, we control this planet. And the question

Why humans run the world...

 go find some professor sarah lauer is a passionate advocate for the fireflies treacherous ways but to understand their deceit first you need a crash course in firefly mating habits