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    The document provides information about two insect families: fireflies (Lampyridae) and bush crickets (Tettigoniidae). Fireflies, also known as lightning bugs, produce light through chemical reactions in specialized light organs located on their abdomens. Bush crickets are nocturnal insects related to crickets known for their long antennae, large hind legs, and the females' thick, upwardly curved egg-laying structures. Both insects have various common names across different regions.

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    The document provides information about two insect families: fireflies (Lampyridae) and bush crickets (Tettigoniidae). Fireflies, also known as lightning bugs, produce light through chemical reactions in specialized light organs located on their abdomens. Bush crickets are nocturnal insects related to crickets known for their long antennae, large hind legs, and the females' thick, upwardly curved egg-laying structures. Both insects have various common names across different regions.

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    Scientific name: Lampyridae Scientific name: Tettigoniidae

    Common name: Fireflies or alitaptap (in tagalog) Common name: Bush cricket, tipaklong (in tagalog)

    Names in other region: Kulalanti (Ilocano), Kangkanti (Pangasinan), Names in other region: Balang, Lukton
    Bukatkat (Ormocanon), Alipatpat (Kapampangan), Aniniput/ipot-ipot
    (Hiligaynon)

    Description: Firefly (Lampyridae) also called lightning bug. These Description: Katydid, (family Tettigoniidae), also called long-horned
    insects live in a variety of warm environments, as well as in more grasshopper or bushcricket, also spelled bush cricket, any of about
    temperate regions, and are a familiar sight on summer evenings. 6,000 predominantly nocturnal insects that are related to crickets (the
    Fireflies love moisture and often live in humid regions of Asia and the two groups are in the suborder Ensifera, order Orthoptera) and are
    Americas. Fireflies have dedicated light organs that are located under noted for their mating calls. Katydids are also known for their large
    their abdomens. The insects take in oxygen and, inside special cells, hind legs and extremely long threadlike antennae as well as the thick,
    combine it with a substance called luciferin to produce light with upwardly curved ovipositor (egg-laying structure) of the females.
    almost no heat.

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