Appearance and color offered to the waters
Can you imagine being at night watching how the entire coast is tinged with a blue light? This is what happens in some parts of the world. These are dinoflagellata luciferis enzymes. These microorganisms release bluish types of flash when mechanically stimulated by movement wave. The reason they do that is to blind potential predators and get rid of them.
The sites of dinoflagellata luciferis enzymes correspond to the most fragile and vulnerable ecosystems in the world. Some of them, such as those recently affected by the hurricanes, the Bioluminescent and Mosquito bays of Puerto Rico. This particular defense mode also creates a unique special effect almost out of the cinema. On some occasions it has been
The Foxfire effect of mushrooms
Bioluminescence Foxfire
Another of the luminescent effects that we can find at night. The term "Foxfire" is used to refer to bioluminescence emitted by some fungi from decaying wood. The genus of fungi that produce this light is the «Armillaria». This type of fungus, also known as the "honey fungus", has an extremely long life. In addition, some of them constitute the largest living organisms. In a purely individual way, the largest of them houses a total area of 8 square km, whose life span exceeds a thousand years.
Wildfire
Some of the Armillaria species, not only did they produce the Foxfire, but also 'wisp«. This phenomenon consists of the inflammation of certain matters, like phosphorus and methane mainly. It occurs when substances from fungi and other rotting animals and vegetables, rise and form small flames that are seen walking through the air a short distance from the surface.
Lights that fill the nights with color, in few places, and fill them with magic, myths and legends.