Minecraft to join Microsoft. REDMOND, Wash. â Sept. 15, 2014 â Microsoft Corp. today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Mojang, the celebrated Stockholm-based game developer, and the companyâs iconic âMinecraftâ franchise.
The Lampyridae are a family of insects in the beetle order Coleoptera. They are winged beetles, commonly called fireflies or lightning bugs for their conspicuous use of bioluminescence during twilight to attract mates or prey. Fireflies produce a cold light, with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies.
How Does a Firefly Make Its Light? July 9, 2015 by Karen Hill | Filed Under: Animals Sitting outside on summer evenings, you may have wondered how fireflies make those bright little flashes of light. To begin with, the firefly is not a fly, it is a beetle. And inside that beetleâs stomach are five chemicals. When oxygen enters the fireflyâs body, it stimulates a nerve reaction which causes those five chemicals to combine. This turns the light on. Several seconds later, another chemical combines with the others and turns the light off. Fireflies use their flashing lights as a mating signal. The male flies about at night, flashing his light. The female usually waits in the grass for the maleâs signal, then answers him by flashing her own light.