CREATION MOMENTS MINUTE

Click HERE to sign up to use Creation Moments Minute on your station, website, or podcast, FREE!  Subscribe via YouTube, iTunes, Yahoo, Google+, podOmatic, or RSS!  Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!  Find host Darren Marlar at DarrenMarlar.com.  [Theme music provided by 615.]   http://www.CreationMomentsMinute.com   The Efficient Firefly   On today’s Creation Moments Minute, we’ll look at how fireflies produce their light.   To make a flash, fireflies must make and mix a chemical called luciferin with oxygen and an enzyme called luciferase. This mixture is combined with a catalyst to create the flashes of light.   Firefly flashes are used for finding a mate. Fireflies are able to read the light signals of other fireflies. These signals may contain several messages. Some flashes can tell a firefly whether the sender is one of his species. Light flashes are used to identify whether the sender is a male or female. If it's a female, the flashes can identify whether she has already mated.   This is ano