Firefly (Lampyridae)

As night creeps up and darkness brings A flashing light goes by on wings A neon green his life emits As through the air he gently flits This little beetle, not a fly That dances in the evening sky And twinkles like the stars above When he’s intent on making love While down below, his lady fair Gives off her own pale greenish flare While sitting on a blade of grass Watching for her mate to pass His light that shines, gives off no heat And in the warmth, does faster beat He signals her with much persistence She answers him with no resistance This lamp that glows is bioluminescent And shines a verdant luminescent Their offspring also faintly show Much paler, yet they surely glow The males are so much more abundant The females somewhat quite redundant As males outnumber fifty to one So most of them the ladies shun They eat not much at adult age But devour much in the growing stage There food consists of slugs and snails That they can track from slimy trails This miracle of living light That brightens up the darkest night This little creature a shining pendant So divine and so transcendent