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with male fireflies attracting female fireflies of the same species by flashing a distinctive, recognizable pattern. So those lights twinkling around you, switching on and off seemingly at random ...

it seems the trapped firefly — once bitten — ends up imitating a female’s flash pattern and luring other males to their doom. Fireflies communicate with flash patterns (something you can ...