Glow in the dark

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3107, 2017, págs. 26-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's like a message scrawled in light. This time-lapse image, taken over 30 seconds in a Costa Rican cloud forest, shows a headlight beetle's meandering path along a leaf The insect's "headlights"--two bioluminescent spots just behind its actual head--gleam steadily as it wanders undisturbed, as does a third, hidden bright area under its abdomen. Here, Crane features a photograph of a headlight beetle