Vagalumes are a kind of firefly that make a green light at night, sometimes stable and sometimes flashing. There’s a lot of them at this time of year and they make excellent natural Christmas lights 🙂 Vagalumes are flies about a centimetre long with a glowing tail, but last night a different kind landed on the window and I was able to get a close photo of it, I was even able to hold it in my hand for a minute or so! This one was a different type completely, it’s a very big insect about 4cm long and it looks like its eyes are glowing, but actually I think the glowing parts are further back than they eyes. I looked on the net and found out that these are Pyrophorus beetles, they look really sci-fi like some kind of robot bug!
