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06-29-2005, 11:01 PM
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if you kill a firefly while it's lit up...
would it continue to glow when it was dead, and for how long? I'm uh, actually hoping someone might want to find this out the empirical way, unfortunately i live in a crowded town where you dont really see them. also, what is the stuff inside their little firefly butts made of...if you crush it, is it like, gooey, and if you put the stuff on your skin would it continue to glow? an odd question but its quite important to a story i'm writing.
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06-29-2005, 11:18 PM
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Indeed, a -very- odd question.
To the best of my awareness...
That stuff that glows is an organ in the bug, and it produces chemical reactions resulting in light.
If you killed it, the light would dim and disappear within a few seconds.
And I'm sure -any- bug guts are gooey, so...yes.
If you could get it all over your skin before the chemical reactions died...Sure, you could become the amazing Glowing Man. Or woman.
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06-29-2005, 11:25 PM
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oh goody, that's the answer I was hoping for, because there's this part where the character kills some fireflies and smears the stuff on his skin...um, yeah I'm not a psycho, really *grin*
thanks!
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06-29-2005, 11:27 PM
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I actually have killed a lighting glow-bug. (I'm really not that sick, I think it was an accident.) The glowing liquid did smear on my hand, and continued to light for about five seconds. It was pretty cool, but I didn't do it again. I figured it was kind of cruel to make lightning bugs entertain me and pay for it with their lives.
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07-01-2005, 04:19 PM
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Yes it continues to glow, though the one I accidently smacked on my leg was lit up for at least a minute. It was quite odd....
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