La Palabra Del Día "luciérnaga"
luciérnaga ( loo-see-EHR-nah-gah )
noun ( firefly, lightning bug, glow worm )
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1: Cuando se pone el sol, las luciérnagas empiezan a salir.
When the sun goes down, the fireflies start to come out.
2: La gata atrapó una luciérnaga, pero la dejó ir.
The cat trapped a lightning bug, but she let it go.
Did you know:
When an earthquake hit Los Angeles in 1994 knocking out power to the entire city, many anxious residents called 911 to report seeing a strange “giant, silvery cloud” in the dark night sky. What they really saw – for the first time – was the Milky Way, long obliterated by the urban sky glow and light pollution.
Light Pollution
Anecdotal evidence suggests firefly populations are dwindling; in some areas they've crashed dramatically. Loss of habitat, poisonous pesticides and fertilizers, and suburban sprawl are all likely culprits.
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Las luciérnagas emiten luz en patrones característicos de su especie, lo que permite que los machos y las hembras puedan encontrar y emparejarse con individuos de la especie correcta, pero a veces las hembras del género Photuris emiten un señal de otra especie simplemente para atraer a una comida fácil.
Fireflies emit light in species-characteristic patterns, which allows the males and the females to find and pair up with individual of the correct species, but sometimes the females of the genus Photuris emit another species signal simply to attract an easy meal.
"Luciérnaga" fue una serie de TV que fue cancelada demasiado pronto.
"Firefly" was a TV series that was cancelled too soon.
Las luciérnagas no están solas brillando en brillar en la oscuridad.
Fireflies are not not alone in shining in the dark.
Scientists Discover 180 Species of Glowing Fish. A few lucky animals, such as jellyfish and corals, have the strange ability to absorb light and emit it as a different, glowing color. This phenomenon is known as biofluorescence, and now scientists have discovered it is much, much more widespread than we knew.
¡Mmmmmmm--se me hace que me he atrapado una luciérnaga muy grande!
Hmmmmmm---It looks like I have caught me one big lightning bug!
Cuando era niña, mis primos y yo solíamos atrapar luciérnagas en un frasco.
When I was a girl, my cousins and I used to catch lightning bugs in a jar.
Hay un cuento de la luciérnaga y de la serpiente donde nos entera que la serpiente quiere comer la luciérnaga de envidia, porque como la dijo:" Porque no soporto verte brillar!!!"
There is a story of the firefly and the snake where we learn that the snake wants to eat the firefly out of envy, because as she said: "Because I can not stand to see you shine !!!"
Podría ser difícil ser casado con una luciérnaga.
It could be difficult to be married to a firefly.
Hay muchos insectos que son como las luciérnagas e t incluso los musgos que brillan en la oscuridad.
There are many insects that are like the firefly and even mosses that glow in the dark.
Schistostega pennata, also called goblin gold, luminous moss or luminescent moss, is a moss known for its glowing appearance in dark places. It is the only member of the family Schistostegaceae.
Foxfire.
The illumination of fireflies looks stunningly beautiful at night. La iluminación de luciérnagas parece deslumbrante hermosa en la noche.
Fireflies are the only light in a true paradise.
Luciérnagas son la única luz en un paraíso verdadero.
No a todos el mundo le gustan las luciérnagas.
Not everyone likes fireflies.
Thanks, Ken, for the corrections 
No todas las especies de lucíernagas brillan, y la lucíernaga no es una mosca, es un escarabajo.
Not all of the species of fireflies glow, and the firefly is not a fly, it's a beetle.
Las lucirnaga les gustan el agua estancada, al igual que los mosquitos, pero son muchos más bonitas.
Fireflies like standing water, just like mosquitos, but they are much prettier.
En mi juventud, mis hermanos y yo solíamos coger luciérnagas y ponerlas en una botella de vidrio. Luego, perforábamos agujeros en la tapa para que las luciérnagas puedan respirar. Despues, nos acostábamos. ¡Qué maravillosos los bichos parecían cuando se apagaron las luces!
In my youth, my siblings and I used to catch fireflies and put them in a glass bottle. Then we punched holes in the lid so the fireflies could breathe. Then we would go to bed. How wonderful the bugs seemed when the lights went out!
La luciérnaga encontró un sabroso almuerzo.
The firefly found a tasty lunch.
