Flora: Plant-life
-Fireflies commonly use plants for shelter. These include:
-Fireflies come across many types of plants in their environment. In deciduous forests, there are many types of trees including the Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), Quercus velutina (Black oak) and the Salix matsudana (Contorted willow). In meadows and grasses fireflies interact with species like the Bouteloua dactyloides (Buffalo Grass) and Trifolium repens (Four-leaf white clover).
- Taraxacum officinale (dandelions)
- Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
- Cladonia cristatella (British soldier lichen)
-Fireflies come across many types of plants in their environment. In deciduous forests, there are many types of trees including the Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), Quercus velutina (Black oak) and the Salix matsudana (Contorted willow). In meadows and grasses fireflies interact with species like the Bouteloua dactyloides (Buffalo Grass) and Trifolium repens (Four-leaf white clover).
Fauna: Animal-life
-For the fireflies that call the deciduous forest home, they live among other animals including the Ozotoceros bezoarticus (pampas deer), Sciurus carolinensis (gray squirrels) and the Hyla versicolor (grey tree frog).
-Lightning bugs inhabiting wet meadows (those alongside streams and rivers) share their environment with the Chorthippus parallelus (meadow grasshoppers), the Calopteryx virgo (beautiful demoiselles, which are European damselflies) and other various types of insects.
-A few protists that fireflies come into contact with are paramecium (including Paramecium caudatum, Paramecium aurelia, Paramecium bursaria, and Paramecium tetraurelia) and amoeba (including Amoeba proteus and Polychaos dubium). Both of these protists often live in stagnant bodies of water, but can also live in soil and in animals.
-Near the ponds, streams and rivers where lightning bugs live are many types of fungus. A few examples include Stereum ostrea (false turkey tail) and Mutinus elegans (elegant stinkhorn). Armillaria gallica (Bulbous Honey Fungus) and Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) are both types of fungi found in deciduous forests.
-Lightning bugs inhabiting wet meadows (those alongside streams and rivers) share their environment with the Chorthippus parallelus (meadow grasshoppers), the Calopteryx virgo (beautiful demoiselles, which are European damselflies) and other various types of insects.
-A few protists that fireflies come into contact with are paramecium (including Paramecium caudatum, Paramecium aurelia, Paramecium bursaria, and Paramecium tetraurelia) and amoeba (including Amoeba proteus and Polychaos dubium). Both of these protists often live in stagnant bodies of water, but can also live in soil and in animals.
-Near the ponds, streams and rivers where lightning bugs live are many types of fungus. A few examples include Stereum ostrea (false turkey tail) and Mutinus elegans (elegant stinkhorn). Armillaria gallica (Bulbous Honey Fungus) and Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) are both types of fungi found in deciduous forests.