Despite its strange appearance, Fulgora laternaria is quite harmless.
They can be found, with wings folded back over their bodies, on the trunks of trees where they feed on sap, their mottled forewings allowing them to blend in perfectly with the bark.
Fulgora laternaria are also capable of producing sound by drumming their hollow heads against tree trunks.
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Some Amazonian Indians believed the lanternfly bite caused death.
Fulgora laternaria has been found to rest and feed on certain trees in the Peruvian rain forest that produce resins or toxic chemicals that are consumed by the insect.
When danger is detected, these chemicals are released as a "skunk-like spray".
And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it on the earth: and there were thunders and voices and lightnings and a great earthquake.
Et accepit angelus turibulum et implevit illud de igne altaris et misit in terram et facta sunt tonitrua et voces et fulgora et terraemotus
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound the trumpet.
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ABSTRACT.-Four aspects of the ethnoentomology of the lantern-fly (Fulgora laternaria L., 1767) were studied in Pedra Branca, Brazil.
A total of 45 men and 41 women were consulted through open-ended interviews and their actions were observed in order to document the wisdom, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors related to the lantern-fly.
RESUMO.-O artigo refere-se à etnoentomologia da jequitiranabóia (Fulgora laternaria L., 1767), baseando-se nas quatro dimensões conectivas que os seres humanos podem manter com o inseto.
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bioluminescence is found in the larvae of the fungus flies (families Platyuri- dae, Bolitophilidac) and in a South American cicada (Fulgora lanternaria).
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were they seem to have been much too large for any of the truly bioluminescent insects, even the Chinese candle-fly Fulgora candelaria.
Beechcroft's collectio of specimens in natural history, I was considering what a different figure the Fire-fly, the Fulgora, made in its then state, from that it naturally bore in
I did so.—They are, however, as I believe, of a different class; I am not so good an entomologist, as to be able to give you very correct information on these subjects, and I have no books now within my reach.
I think, however, that glow-worms are called Lampyris, and these Fire-flies, Fulgora, and that the insect we saw, which is one of the largest kind, and bearing its light in its snout, is called the Fulgora Lanternaria.
Lantern-fly Glossary - Dictionary definition [define: lantern-fly] of lantern-fly(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
(Zool.) any one of several species of large, handsome, brightly marked, tropical hemipterous insects of the genera Laternaria, Fulgora, and allies, of the family Fulgorid[ae].
The head has a snoutlike process in some species which was formerly thought to emit a phosphorescent light.
[WordNet 1.5] See also: [Laternaria] [Fulgora] [Fulgorid[ae]] [Laternaria phosphorea]
