Trouble at the Door
When
night falls on the savannah of Emas National Park in Brazil, things start to
take on an alien glow.
You're
actually seeing click beetle larvae living in the outermost layers of termite
mounds. When they get hungry, they emerge, glowing, from their burrows to feast
on termites that are coming and going.
This
performance only happens when conditions are right: just a few weeks after the
rainy season. To get this shot, photographer Ary Bassous went out during the
night, lit the mound with a flashlight and left the shutter open for 30
seconds.
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