Exotic Night Light Fireflies

Firefly beetle is included in the family of the order Coleoptera. There are over 2000 species of fireflies are dispersed in the tropics worldwide. They can be found in damp places, such as swamps and areas filled with trees.
In humid areas that fireflies find many sources of food for the larvae.

We know that the fireflies come out at night, but there are also fireflies are active in the daytime. Those who come out during the day is not generally give off light. Only a few fireflies are able to give off light when in the dark.

But why yes, fireflies give off light? How do they hold the heat generated by light?That unique firefly! The light they produce light without heat are called luminescence.

Luminescence in the firefly's body produced by a substance called luciferin. Well, this substance luciferin combines with oxygen to give off light.

You know, even though scientists have been able to make the same type of light produced by fireflies, scientists still have to take some elements from the body of the firefly, because the chemists have not been able to make such substances. It is still a mystery of nature until now.

Baby fireflies

In the adult fireflies, in addition to warning signs of danger, light on his serve to draw attention to their partner. Not only adult fireflies, baby firefly larvae which still form also give off light. Light on the larvae are useful to warn other animals that would prey on them not to close.

After mating, the female firefly will lay its eggs under the soil surface. The eggs will hatch into larvae after 3-4 weeks and will continue to be fed until the summer ends.After approximately 1-2 weeks from the end of the summer, the larvae will turn into pupa and then turns into an adult firefly.


Being Lantern

As in some other animals, fireflies also has significance in some of the legends and culture. In Mayan mythology, fireflies are often associated with the star. The fireflies are also considered to represent the messengers of god Mayan temples.

Ancient Chinese people often put fireflies in a transparent box for later use as a lantern. While the Japanese culture and folklore, fireflies have the same meaning as great as the famous Sakura flower.

Well, if you see a firefly in flight, fireflies are certainly male sex. Why so? Yes, because only male fireflies that have wings, while the female clung to the leaves and soil.

Goat Twins Without Legs!

Parjiyo 45 Years old, villagers Srihardono, Pundong District, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, do not expect the maintenance of goats gave birth to twins without legs.

Both kid-sexes male and female was born on Friday (7/15/2011) ago. At that time, Parjiyo just returned from the field and was about to feed the goats in the barn beside his house.

Arriving in the goat pen, he was surprised that the kid is born no legs. "I raise goats since five years ago and had twice the oddity of this happening. The first two children of the tail, one has no legs. Now both of them do not even have legs," said Parjiyo.

Furthermore, Parjiyo explains, stem from bringing goats goat's Church Patalan, earth earthquake relief in May 2006. At first he only kept two tails, is now bred into six tails.

Responding to the strangeness of this, had no inkling Parjiyo admitted anything because of pregnancy the mother goat was also normal. For him, this event is considered as an oddity.

Now, the magic, it makes a lot of residents in local villages to be surprised and flocked to witness this strange goat. Because the parent does not want to breastfeed, were forced to use a pacifier for breastfeeding Parjiyo two goat kids.

It has been five days he buys fresh milk from dairy farms, not far from his home. Although slightly disappointed, Parjiyo intend to continue to nurture the kid without legs can.

If someone wants to buy it, then he would give that up. "Actually I was disappointed because it had trouble maintaining and give us to eat, how birth defects such as this," said Parjiyo.

A White Two-headed Snake New Stars Ukraine

A two-headed snake that can eat from both his mouth and even fighting over food, anew star at the zoo Ukraine.

California King snake this albino, as reported by the Straits Times, is a new occupant resort on the Black Sea, Yalta. Zoo keeper like him because of self-and second head does not always agree with each other and often steal food.

"Sometimes they want to go a different direction. When hungry, they were stealing food, "said zoo owner, Oleg Zubkov.

However, a guard out in the end they remain full due to sharing the same stomach. King snake hunting other reptiles, so do not rule out one head wanted to eat the other head.

Source : www.dunia-unik.com

Insects Killer Instincts With the Strongest

We knows the insect as one type of living creature with the most population on this earth. Of the many insects, there are harmless, but some are dangerous.
Well, insects below may indeed designed as a perfect killing machine, even they may be far more efficient and better than other creatures.
These insects seem below is designed as the perfect killing machine. Indeed, most are harmless to humans, but some insects can cause serious injury to humans.

Robber flies:

We all must be familiar with flies flying around us. Flies are more commonly known as a carrier of germs, even from the school, the flies are considered as detrimental to the human animal. Flies that we often see at home is just one of many fly species ever found.

According to scientists, about 120,000 species of flies have been identified and some of them are deadly predators are completely different from the flies that we often encounter, and robber flies are one of them.

These flies have a keen vision, can fly at high speed, and catch its prey in midair. When the fly gets its prey, he will inject a neurotoxin and digestive juices through his mouth which is designed in such a way, then he will suck the prey body fluids to dry.
Almost all types of small insects are the prey of these flies, even the spider webs are not able to withstand the strong pace of these flies. Although these flies have a poison, but it is not harmful to humans, only if bitten by these flies, then the pain will be tremendous.

Tiger Beetles:

Everyone also knows if the cheetah is the fastest animal on earth capable of running up to 115 km / h. Compared with these tiger beetles, would be very much the comparison because the beetle is only capable of running at speeds up to 8 km / h.

But wait, if the size of the beetle is the same as the cheetah, the cheetah will then struggling to pursue this beetle because it is capable of running as fast as 500 kilometers / h and will probably replace the cheetah as the fastest animal on earth, even the mass-made supersport cars would be difficult after him.
That glimpse of the ability of these beetles. I was so fast he moves, until he had to stop several times to determine the location of prey.

Once he determines the location of prey, he ran quickly to grab prey. Besides relying on speed as a weapon to kill prey, the beetle also has a strong jaw.
Because of its exceptional ability, the beetle is used by humans to control pests such as caterpillars, grasshoppers and other insects.

Retreat-retreat:

Termite insect is certainly not a stranger to us. Animals are believed to be a blood pressure-lowering drugs should not be underestimated. Maybe for us termites only a small insect which is unique because the movement of a unique way, ie backwards.

However, for insects are smaller such as ants, termites are ferocious predators that must be avoided. Termite itself is a larval stage before metamorphosis perfect.
Usually termites are found in sandy places due to their anatomy and way of moving termites are very suitable for trapping in a sandy place.
Termites will wait grounded funnel-shaped trap, and when there is an insect that unlucky because of a fall in the trap, the insects will be difficult to escape.

Because the trap is located in sandy areas, then the prey will be difficult to ride because it will slip again and be fine termites. If you are curious, please see the picture termite nest on top of this, if there are ants that happen to get into his trap, then you will see how it kills its prey insects perfectly.

Insect Killer:

Insect killer is a type of insect that has the ability to kill the best among other insects. There are many kinds, but most are harmless to humans.

Oh yes, these insects have their own specialty in killing prey. There are species that only kills the spider, there is also the only hunting ants and flies.
Insect killer armed with the mouth shaped like a needle, which serves to inject saliva that kill. Water will digest the eggs of this organ in the prey.

Like other insects are not able to eat the prey directly, these insects suck the prey body fluids. Not pictured is not what if the animal is huge.

Grasshoppers Worship:

Praying mantis is one of the best insect killer with physical support which support it as a true predator. Although the species is also widely, but the praying mantis or mantis is famous for its forelegs designed specifically to capture prey.

These insects rely on camouflage to wait for its prey with its body and when prey through, he will soon be ambushed by a high speed. Mantises usually prey on animals - small animals. These insects are also known to eat their prey directly, but he also has a strong jaw.

Bees Tigers:

This giant-sized bees are insects that live in Asia. Insects which are the mortal enemy of a praying mantis have a sting that is large enough to kill a large spider like tarantulas. These bees possess a higher dose of venom from any bee, which can result in death for humans if stung by bees in large quantities.

In Japan alone, this bee kills at least 40 people in a year and makes people scared. Bees sting Tigers actually only use as a defense, and to hunt prey, they use powerful jaws to kill smaller prey.
There is a story about bees, a beekeeper from the European honey bee Tigers try to combine this with a kind of honey bees in order to cross the two types of bees for the production of more honey bees because of the size of a tiger bigger than honeybees.
But what happened? Bees tiger which amounted to only a few are destroying all of the honey bee colony in just a few days.

Additional comments from my friends
from bopfive5:

I saw him on television yesterday, Bees Tigers could kill thousands of honeybees with ferocity, just as quickly kill enemies honey farmers. unique before killing him to send spies, honeybees had set him up anyway, Bees Tiger in there later invite the incoming signal of honey bees who only shook his body, constantly surrounded Bees in Tiger, not bite or sting, and hundreds of body friction movement struggles it can generate heat and kill the tiger, the Tiger can come out if bees hive of honeybees / escape, honey bee hive will be destroyed, sorry want to share as well.

No one was left of honey bees, all bees were killed by a tiger, while the European honey bee colonies amounted to about 30,000 bees. Maybe that's portrayal of how ferociously these bees, but bees are not the strongest types of bees because of the Japanese honeybee has tricks and special way to kill this tiger bee.
First they would encircle the bees of this tiger, and then by relying on their numbers are many, they form a dense ball-shaped formations, and swarms of bees surrounded the tiger.
Japanese honey bees then begin to flap their wings faster, causing heat in the formation of the ball until the temperature reached 47 degrees Celsius.
At this temperature, tiger bee trapped in the formation of solid ball was not going to survive and will die slowly. Proverb sky above the sky still seems really suited to this story.

5 Killed Animals That Difficult

1. Immortal Jellyfish

Immortal is immortal jellyfish ... and this one is immortal or not die!
This jellyfish was born and developed as usual ... but their lives are not ended ... they will return to the form of polyp (baby jellyfish) and his life started again from scratch

2. Lungfish

Lungfish is one of the oldest species of aquatic animal
they can live even though no water or air for 6 months. They could come back to life after being given a little water

3. Tree Weta

Tree Weta is a beast ... a truly spooky
in their blood have a special protein which makes the water is not frozen ... means that although the tree Weta frozen, their blood can still flow when they wake up.
Brains and their hearts were also not functioning when they are frozen ... but they could return to function as a liquid ...
So they can die ... then live again! Like a zombie

4. Water Bears

Water bears are microscopic animals dead water ...
Water is very hard to bear was killed ... they can not even in the freeze, they can stand in the cold -273 Celsius. They also can hold a nuclear bomb ... they could return to the dry form and when in this form they are immune to radiation. They are also immune to liquid nitrogen and mineral acids.
One way to kill a water bear is sending it into outer space... and although they could still be alive 10 days!

5. Giant East African Snail

East African giant snail-like with her cousins ... but can grow to 8 inches
East African population already tried various things to kill this beast ... pesticides, poisons, even a flamethrower .. .. But this creature still can not be killed.

That's five animals that are difficult to kill "It's hard not mean it can not die, but only God who can kill these animals":)

10 Passengers Not Human

Space shuttle Atlantis was launched on Friday (06/07/2011) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The launch conducted at 22:26 pm, while the mission would last for 12 days. At least four astronauts involved in the mission as well as a shuttle mission last of NASA.

In the 30 years and 134 missions, many roles that run the shuttle, of whom helped launch three major covers the Hubble spacecraft, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the mission of studying Venus and Jupiter, as well as sending a total of 350 astronauts.

Behind the popular thing to do space shuttles, including the delivery of the iPhone 4 into space by Atlantis this time, there are many roles that have not been so well known, of whom there were passengers in addition to the human passengers who also got to fly.

As published in the online version of Wired is that passengers following:

1. Frog
Female frogs were taken in the Endeavour mission in September 1992. The goal is to see the effect on the development of tadpoles mikrogravitasi condition. Half of the eggs produced by female frogs were placed in a centrifuge to simulate a normal environment, while half are left. The result, they grow normally but the tadpoles are left in a condition mikrogravitasi trouble finding the water surface while returning to Earth.

2. Squirrel
Two squirrels were taken in the Challenger mission in May, 1985. Each squirrel named No 3165 and No. 384-80 and were taken to determine the effect on feeding behavior mikrogravitasi conditions. The result, in conditions mikrogravitasi, squirrels becomes frequent sleepiness and loss of appetite.

3. Sea urchin sperm
Sperm were moving faster in conditions mikrogravitasi. It was known at NASA brought urchin sperm into space. Animal sperm were taken through the Atlantis mission in 1997.

4. Transparent fish
Transparent type Medaka fish taken by the space shuttle Columbia in 1984. The fish was named Genki, Cosmo, Miki, and Yume. Unexpectedly, it turns out the fish can reproduce and produce many tillers. Researchers hope, based on these results later on humans could breed the fish in space.

5. Moth eggs
Moth eggs carried in Endeavour's mission in 1994. The results with the moth show that life is shorter and sterile moths.

6. Worms
Experimenting with worms carried in the 2003 Columbia mission, astronauts successfully breed worms. This proves that the successful use of synthetic nutrients.

7. Honeybees
a total of 3000 honey bee was brought to the space shuttle Challenger in 1984. The result, in the honey bee space was also successfully build a nest of thick and not less interesting than on Earth.

8. Jellyfish
A total of 2478 jellyfish carried by space shuttle mission Columbia in 1991. During the nine-day mission, from jellyfish polyp managed to grow into the next life stage called ephyrae.

9. Rat
Based on the results obtained from experiments with mice that carried the space shuttle Columbia in 1998, the mice that developed in conditions of mikrogravitasi have less developed brains, muscles shrink, and the difficulty of repairing the damaged bone.

10. Squid
The squid was taken in the last Endeavour mission this year to study the bacteria that live on its surface. Salmonella, a type of bacteria that changed three times more deadly after returning from space.

Source: ranisuhanda9.blogspot.com

10 Biggest Dinosaurs

1. Although paleontologists claim to have found bigger dinosaurs, Argentinosaurus is the biggest sauropod whose size has been backed up by convincing evidence. This gigantic plant-muncher (named after Argentina, where its remains were found) measured about 120 feet from head to tail and may have weighed over 100 tons. Just one vertebra of Argentinosaurus is over four feet thick! (Other, less-well-attested contenders for the “biggest sauropod” title include Futalognkosaurus, Bruhathkayosaurus and Amphicoelias.)

2. Named after Poseidon, the Greek god of the ocean, Sauroposeidon was once thought to be the biggest dinosaur of all time, but paleontologists have since concluded that it was slightly lighter than Argentinosaurus, “only” about 50 or 60 tons. However, Sauroposeidon was almost certainly the tallest sauropod ever to roam the earth; its neck alone was almost 40 feet long!

3. You probably thought the winner in this category would be T. Rex, but it’s now believed that Spinosaurus (which had a huge, crocodile-like mouth and a sail of skin jutting up from its back) was slightly heavier, weighing in at 7 or 8 tons. It’s possible that this dinosaur’s famous sail evolved as a way of increasing its skin area, and hence allowing it to cool down faster–yet more evidence that Spinosaurus was the king of the meat-eaters.

4. Just as Sauroposeidon is named after the Greek god of the ocean, Quetzalcoatlus is named after the winged Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. This gigantic pterosaur had a wingspan of up to 45 feet, making it the largest creature ever to fly, modern eagles included. That is, if Quetzalcoatlus really did fly: new research hints that this giant pterosaur may have led a completely landbound existence.

5. With its long, thick, tooth-studded jaws, bulky body, and massive flippers, this pliosaur looked a bit like a cross between an orca and a shark. Paleontologists believe Liopleurodon attained lengths of 40 to 50 feet, and may have weighed 20 to 30 tons, about the dimensions of an adult sperm whale. If this doesn’t sound impressive, keep in mind that the biggest great white sharks weigh about 3 tons, max.

6. The hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs, were the most common herbivores of the late Cretaceous period. Recently discovered in China, Shantungosaurus was the biggest hadrosaur yet known, about 50 feet long and anywhere from 15 to 50 tons (the largest size ever achieved by an ornithischian, rather than saurischian, dinosaur). Amazingly, this giant duckbill may have been capable of running on two legs when escaping carnivores. (There’s speculation that a new Chinese hadrosaur, Zhuchengosaurus, may have been even bigger than Shantungosaurus!)

7. Velociraptor gets all the press these days, but this chicken-sized raptor was positively puny next to Utahraptor, which weighed in at a whopping 1,500 pounds (and was a full 20 feet long). Oddly, Utahraptor lived a few tens of millions of years before its more famous (and smaller) cousins, a reversal of the general evolutionary rule that tiny progenitors evolve into plus-sized descendants.

8. The therapsids (”mammal-like reptiles”) were a group of terrestrial reptiles that preceded the dinosaurs. The ungainly Moschops, which ruled the forests of Gondwana during the Permian period, looked a bit like a cross between a cow and a frog, with its blunt, bovine face and splay-footed, four-legged posture. This odd creature may have reached lengths of up to 20 feet and weights of a few tons, making it the biggest land animal of its time.

9. Better known as “SuperCroc,” the 40-foot-long Sarcosuchus weighed about 8 tons–about twice as long, and ten times as heavy, as the biggest crocodiles alive today. Despite its enormous size, though, Sarcosuchus appears to have led a typical crocodilian lifestyle, lurking in African rivers of the middle Cretaceous period and launching itself at any dinosaurs unlucky enough to draw too near.

10. The ichthyosaurs (”fish lizards”) were a group of sleek, hydrodynamic, and often quite large aquatic reptiles that thrived from the late Triassic to the middle Cretaceous periods. No ichthyosaur came bigger than the 50-foot-long, 30-ton Shonisaurus, which looked like a cross between a blue whale and a dolphin. Oddly enough, Shonisaurus is the official state fossil of land-locked Nevada, which was partially submerged in water in prehistoric times.


Source: http://scienceray.com/earth-sciences/paleontology/10-biggest-dinosaurs/ixzz1OOTZzUzL

10 most beautiful fish in the world

1. Mandarin Fish

There are 2 varieties of this species, namely Mandarinfish standards and Psychedelic Mandarin. The standard usually have a pattern and color better than the Psychedelic. It costs no more than $ 20 per head, but the problem was the food that is difficult to find.

2. Discus

This fish is a freshwater fish species which may be a freshwater fish of the most beautiful. The price is very expensive, puppies sekitar3 inches in length only between $ 50 - $ 80.

3. Lion Fish

This fish is also called zebrafish. Spine has a venom that is very painful and quite effective.

4. Moorish Idol

This fish is very difficult to be maintained with a standard aquarium, and also the exorbitant price tag that soared.

5. Koi

There are many color variations of koi fish (about 100an). Koi can have orange, red, white, golden, or black. Some koi enthusiasts willing to pay thousands of dollars for a koi only to find that rare koi color pattern.

6. Flame Angel

This fish memikiki close relationship with the Coral Beauty. Its just like the Coral Beauty, but nature does not 'seteguh' Coral Beauty.

7. Coral Beauty

This fish is relatively easy to maintain fish in the aquarium and can survive in both habitats.

8. Regal Tang

These fish belong to the surgeonfish family, which has a small blade of calcium that can be hidden in front of its tail fin. This small knife is used primarily for defense systems in the face of predators.

9. Parrot Fish

So named because the shape of bird beak-like mouth. This fish uses its mouth like a beak is to break down and eat the small invertebrates that live in the coral. Usually they will eat the whole-whole rock coral or sea sand and then chewing invertebrates that are in it, then discard the rest.

10. African Cichlids

Fish is pronounced as "Sick-Lids". This fish is found in three lakes in Africa: Malawi, Tanganyika, and Victoria. Species in Lake Victoria the number is less diverse and less colorful than others. They usually grow to 6-7 inches, with the exception of Frontosoa species, which can grow until 12-14 inches. These fish are freshwater fish that can be easily maintained in the home aquarium. In addition to Africa, there are also species of fish that live in the waters of the Amazon, but it was bigger and more aggressive than that in Africa.

10 species of frogs are unique and attractive in the world

The frog is not one of the rare animal species, nor as a pet. The presence of frogs is felt very disturbing fact that even human life. But make no mistake argues first, that there is a real frog has its own charm values. Once we know that the actual unique frogs and toads weird, like the frog article ML-like humans, our eyes are now wide-eyed frog again saw the figure of a diverse range of forms of weirdness that we rarely see in real life hatri. How do frogs strangest phenomena in the world, consider the following discourse.

Here are 10 frog are unique and interesting world

1. Rainbow frog

Malagasy rainbow frog is a frog that lives in dry forests of Madagascar's rocky Isalo Massif, where it breeds in shallow temporary ponds found in the valley. This species is well adapted to climbing in rocky environments, and even on vertical surfaces! When threatened, this frog will develop itself as a defense mechanism against predators.

2. Transparent Frogs

Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum, also called glass or crystal frog because my friend could see through the transparent flesh. This species is not new, but they certainly are threatened with extinction, so the findings are encouraging for the environment.

3. Atelopus Frog

Atelopus frog is known by many names such as frogs clown or Variable Harlequin Toad of Costa Rica. Frogs, these are the kind of neo-tropical frogs that used to live quite widely spread throughout Costa Rica and Panama. The species is critically endangered and is now only a few mainly left only in Panama.

4. World's Smallest Frog

This frog found in southern Peru Andes Mountains, with altitudes between 9925 and 10,466 feet above sea level.

5. World's Biggest Frog

Goliath frog or Conraua goliath frog is the largest remaining species on Earth. This frog can grow to 13 inches (33 centimeters) long from snout to tail, and weighs up to 8 lb (3 kg). This frog has a relatively small habitat range, mainly in West Africa (near Gabon). Goliath frog can live to 15 years. Goliath frog eat scorpions, insects and small frogs. These frogs have sharp hearing but had no vocal sac.

6. Red Frog Mantel

This frog has a red coat is orange / red on the dorsal surface / body. This small frog, reaching a size of 2.5 cm (1 in.) in length. This size is small, this frog is a terrestrial frog native to Madagascar.

7. Toxic Frog

Poisonous toadstools with colors like sapphire blue, is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae, which is native frogs of Central and South America. Unlike most frogs, the species active in the daytime, and often shows bright-colored body. Although all dendrobatids at least somewhat toxic in the wild, the level of toxicity varies from one species to the next, and from one population to another. Many species are critically endangered. Amphibians are often called "dart frogs" by a native indian by the use of their toxic secretions to poison the tip of his arrow.

8. Frog Pillow

Frog pillow can grow to six inches long and inhabit Uruguay, Brazil and northern Argentina. While it may look like bearing silent, but the frog was quick in attacking lizards, small rodents, birds, other frogs.

9. Darwin's frog

Chile Darwin's frog is regularly seen until around 1978, but did not appear again and it seems to have disappeared, and now possibly extinct species. This species, which live in leaf litter on the forest floor, has an unusual method in terms of parenting her children, male taking eggs from the nest into his vocal sac where they hatch into tadpoles after about eight days. When he began to feel the newly hatched tadpoles wriggling, male frogs bring them into the river where he took off a young frog and here they completed metamorphosis.

10. Vietnam Frog

Theloderma corticale, or Vietnamese mossy frog, the frog species in the family Rhacophoridae. This frog is found in Vietnam and possibly China. Its natural habitat subtropical or tropical lowland forest humid, live in fresh water, and rocky areas. Common name of mossy frogs arise from the fact that the skin is mottled green and black that resembles moss grows on rocks, and an effective form of camouflage or disguise.

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