nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
