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This striking photo was taken in the national Park of EMAS in Central Brazil during the rainy season. At this time, from April to October, you can observe the glow of a termite mound.
On the termite mounds with the "pale phosphorescent glow" travelers began to mention in their essays in 1850. Offered different explanations of the phenomenon: the illumination of the fungi, bacteria, or termite mounds themselves.
In 1952 there was an assumption that glowing insects living in the mound, fire — fly or the larvae of Diptera.
In 1982 it was found that lyuminestsiruyushchikh of previously unknown species of beetle Pyrearinus termitilluminans from the family of click beetles.
Glowing larvae are attracted not only by victims, but predators, too willing to eat flying insects, spiders, harvestmen, centipedes, Scorpions, frogs. But owls hunt.
Glow in beetles occurs during the oxidation of luciferin by the enzyme luciferase, like our fireflies from the family of fireflies and many other animals.
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a termite mound in the afternoon; b — glowing termite mound at night; c, d — adult male and female of a Firefly Pyrearinus termitilluminans; e — larva sticking out of holes in termite mound, fluoresces her prothorax; f — larva sticking out of the burrows in daylight.
Photo from the article E. J. H. Bechara, C. V. Stevani, 2018. Brazilian bioluminescent beetles: reflections on catching glimpses of light in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado
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Luminescent termite nests in the Park of EMAS.
Photo © Marcio Cabral from the site storytrender.com
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