On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 22:37:19 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 07:51:47 -0500, "Bill DeWitt"
><the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>
>>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1281/MeganM5.html
>>
>>Pictures of Fireflies. We have lots where people don't spray their yards
>>with Chem-Lawn or whatever... But I have never seen them blink in unison.
>
>The unison seems to be localised in domains of a couple of meters in
>size. If two trees are adjacent it way happen that the touching parts
>flash together. Or if a tree is big enough several big flashing spots
>may be observed. It is a yet unexplained phenomenon afaik.

Maybe the flashing isn't 100% in their controle, say caused or influenced
by solar winds or something.


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