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@ llewelly
2025-02-16 10:05:26
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thank you, that's very interesting, I'm finally looking at wikipedia now. And apparently they also glow by way of luciferin and luciferase the same chemicals lightning bugs use. It's remarkable how widespread that is. wikipedia also has the wood hypothesis you mentioned; so maybe they don't really need the glow, they just need to use up dangerous oxygens. : )
on the other hand, in biology there's hardly ever just one reason things happen, so maybe they are using the glow anyway.