Editing Firefly (section)

=== In culture ===
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Fireflies have featured in human culture around the world for centuries.<ref name="Krafsur Moon 2008">{{cite book |last1=Krafsur |first1=E. S. |last2=Moon |first2=R. D. |last3=Albajes |first3=R. |last4=Alomar |first4=O. |last5=Chiappini |first5=Elisabetta |last6=Huber |first6=John |last7=Capinera |first7=John L. |title=Encyclopedia of Entomology |chapter=Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) |publisher=Springer Netherlands |publication-place=Dordrecht |year=2008 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_3811 |pages=1429–1452 |isbn=978-1-4020-6242-1}}</ref> In Japan, the emergence of fireflies ([[Japanese language|Japanese]]: {{Transliteration|ja|hotaru}}) signifies the anticipated changing of the seasons;<ref name="Takada 1987">{{cite journal |last=Takada |first=Kenta |title=Japanese Interest in "Hotaru" (Fireflies) and "Kabuto-Mushi" (Japanese Rhinoceros Beetles) Corresponds with Seasonality in Visible Abundance |journal=[[Insects (journal)|Insects]] |date=2012 |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=423–431 |doi=10.3390/insects3020424 |pmid=26466535 |pmc=4553602 |doi-access=free}}</ref> firefly viewing is a special [[Aesthetics|aesthetic]] pleasure of midsummer, celebrated in parks that exist for that one purpose.<ref name="Schultz 2011">{{cite journal |last=Schultz |first=Ted R. |year=2011 |title=Fireflies, Honey, and Silk. By Gilbert Waldbauer; illustrated by, James Nardi; 2009. |journal=[[The Quarterly Review of Biology]] |language=en-us |location=Berkeley, California |publisher=University of California Press |volume=86 |issue=2 |pages=147–149 |doi=10.1086/659937}}</ref> The [[Japanese sword]] [[Hotarumaru]], made in the 14th century, is so named for a legend that its flaws were repaired by fireflies.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fukunaga  |first=Yoiken |year=1993 |chapter=Hotarumaru |script-chapter=ja:蛍丸 |trans-chapter=Firefly Maru |title=Nihontō daihyakkajiten |script-title=ja:日本刀大百科事典 |trans-title=Japanese Sword Encyclopedia |language=ja |volume=5 |publisher=Yuzankaku |page=24 |isbn=4-639-01202-0}}</ref><ref name="taketomi-1943">{{cite book |last=Taketomi |first=邦茂 |year=1943 |chapter=Hotarumaru Kunitoshi |script-chapter=ja:蛍丸国俊 |trans-chapter=Kunitoshi Hotarumaru |title=Nihontō to muteki tamashī |script-title=ja:日本刀と無敵魂 |trans-title=Japanese sword and invincible soul |language=ja |publisher=彰文館 |page=162 |id={{JPNO|46023259}} |url={{NDLDC|1069180|/1/96|format=url}} |access-date=2023-02-25}}</ref>

In Italy, the firefly ([[Italian language|Italian]]: {{lang|it|lucciola}}) appears in Canto XXVI of [[Inferno (Dante)|Dante's ''Inferno'']], written in the 14th century:<ref>{{cite book |last=Alighieri |first=Dante |author-link=Dante Alighieri |title=[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]] |date=1320 |at=Canto XXVI, lines 25–32}}</ref>

{{blockquote|<poem>Quante ’l villan ch’al poggio si riposa,
nel tempo che colui che ’l mondo schiara
la faccia sua a noi tien meno ascosa,

come la mosca cede a la zanzara,
vede lucciole giù per la vallea,
forse colà dov’ e’ vendemmia e ara:

di tante fiamme tutta risplendea
l’ottava bolgia, ...</poem>|Dante's ''Inferno'', Canto XXVI, lines 25–32}}

{{blockquote|As many as the fireflies which the peasant sees in the <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Tuscany|Tuscan]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> valley below, when he is resting on the hill—in the season [midsummer] when the sun hides least from us, and at the time of day [dusk] when the fly gives place to the mosquito—perhaps in the fields where he tills the ground and gathers in the grapes; with that many flames the eighth ditch [of Hell] was shining, ...|prose translation}}