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The firefly's almost magical light has attracted human attention for generations. It is described in
an ancient Chinese encyclopedia written over 2000 years ago by a pupil of Confucius. Fireflies
often featured in Japanese and Arabian folk medicine. All over the world they have been the
inspiration for countless poems, paintings and stories. In Britain, for example, there are plenty of
anecdotes describing how glow-worms have been used to read by or used as emergency bicycle
lamps when a cyclist's batteries have failed without warning. Early travellers in the New World
came back with similar stories, of how the native people of Central America would collect a type
of click beetle and release them indoors to light up their huts. Girls threaded them around their
feet to illuminate the forest paths at night. Fireflies very similar to those we see today have been
found fossilised in rocks which were formed about 30 million years ago, and their ancestors were
probably glowing long before then. It is impossible to be sure exactly when and where the first
firefly appeared. The highest concentrations of firefly species today are to be found in the tropics
of South America, which may mean either that this is where they first evolved, or simply that they
prefer the conditions there. Wherever they first arose, fireflies have since spread to almost every
part of the globe. Today members of the firefly family can be found almost anywhere outside the
Arctic and Antarctic circles.
The firefly's almost magical light has attracted human attention for generations. It is described in
an ancient Chinese encyclopedia written over 2000 years ago by a pupil of Confucius. Fireflies
often featured in Japanese and Arabian folk medicine. All over the world they have been the
inspiration for countless poems, paintings and stories. In Britain, for example, there are plenty of
anecdotes describing how glow-worms have been used to read by or used as emergency bicycle
lamps when a cyclist's batteries have failed without warning. Early travellers in the New World
came back with similar stories, of how the native people of Central America would collect a type
of click beetle and release them indoors to light up their huts. Girls threaded them around their
feet to illuminate the forest paths at night. Fireflies very similar to those we see today have been
found fossilised in rocks which were formed about 30 million years ago, and their ancestors were
probably glowing long before then. It is impossible to be sure exactly when and where the first
firefly appeared. The highest concentrations of firefly species today are to be found in the tropics
of South America, which may mean either that this is where they first evolved, or simply that they
prefer the conditions there. Wherever they first arose, fireflies have since spread to almost every
part of the globe. Today members of the firefly family can be found almost anywhere outside the
Arctic and Antarctic circles.