[bcbirdclub] Re: Warblers and The Blue Ghost
- From: "CHERYL" <thompsone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:23:09 -0400
That's interesting, Roger... I'll start paying closer attention... I've been
seeing our regular fireflies since April this year... The were early and at
first not many... Now, we have a good number and they start glowing before the
edge of dark... I was noticing them last night.
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Mayhorn
To: Buchanan County Bird Club
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:30 PM
Subject: [bcbirdclub] Warblers and The Blue Ghost
Hi All,
Jerry, nice video of the bear. Look out bird feeders.
A couple of weeks ago Lynda and I went to visit a couple of our friends, who
have a farm just a bit northeast of Charleston, WV. The couple recently bought
the property (52 acres) and is trying to get some of it in shape for
pastureland. We went up to lend a hand.
The friends also wanted us to help them figure out the different species of
birds on the property. In addition to the regulars you would expect, we found
Kentucky Warblers, Blue-winged Warblers, Ceruleans, Northern Parulas, Chats,
numerous Wood Thrushes, Yellow-throated and White-eyed Vireos, Whip-poor-wills,
Screech and Barred Owls.
One of the most unusual finds was at dusk, while listening to the
Whip-poor-wills we started seeing blue fireflies. I had just been reading about
these fireflies (Phausis reticulata) also known as the Blue Ghost. They live
only in the Appalachians and are well known in the Great Smokey Mountains.
Their light is a pale blue and it glows for as much as 30 or 40 seconds at a
time. The light can sometimes be bluish-yellow or bluish-green.
Since then I have been watching the fireflies at our place here on Compton
Mt, to see if I might have overlooked them in the past, but we have only the
regular yellow ones (Photinus pyralis).
Here is a website that tells about The Blue Ghost
http://www.dlia.org/atbi/species/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Elateroidea/Lampyridae/Phausis_reticulata.shtml
Have any of the rest of you ever seen these before?
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
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