They are greenish blue but cameras can't pick them up very well. So you have to see it in person. In fact most blue creatures in the world are actually not even "true" blue :)
@@moonlight_scribe haha yeah, I was researching them for fun when I saw this vid and your comment, I would really like to see them too. Where I live we only have the regular ones, but they're pretty cool anyways, did you know fireflies are actually beetles?
@@moonlight_scribe yeah! And while both males and females light up to signal for mates, females do so from the ground in response to males that light up from the sky, because generally females usually can't fly! Pretty interesting :) and these blue ghost ones stay lit up for about a minute!
Because the camera can't pick up the blue hue, it's actually humans eyes that see blue. The bugs themselves are apparently(according to another comment) emitting yellowish green waves.
FYI: the blue fireflies are actually blue if you see them with your own eyes, but the camera can’t pick up the blue that well and shows green
It’s the opposite. We see them as bluish green because of the physics of human sight, but their peak luminosity is about 552nm (greenish yellow).
Headed to the pisgah this weekend!!!!
Those are definitely green though, not blue...
They are greenish blue but cameras can't pick them up very well. So you have to see it in person. In fact most blue creatures in the world are actually not even "true" blue :)
@strixx_1716 whoa. Not every day you get a reply on a post from this far back. Thank you. Would love to see them for real one day.
@@moonlight_scribe haha yeah, I was researching them for fun when I saw this vid and your comment, I would really like to see them too. Where I live we only have the regular ones, but they're pretty cool anyways, did you know fireflies are actually beetles?
@strixx_1716 I did not though I never thought about what category of insect they were.
@@moonlight_scribe yeah! And while both males and females light up to signal for mates, females do so from the ground in response to males that light up from the sky, because generally females usually can't fly! Pretty interesting :) and these blue ghost ones stay lit up for about a minute!
Why talk about the blue ghost firefly and show green ones?
Because the camera can't pick up the blue hue, it's actually humans eyes that see blue. The bugs themselves are apparently(according to another comment) emitting yellowish green waves.