Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!imagen!isaak From: isaak@imagen.UUCP (Mark Isaak) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Baya bird and fireflies Message-ID: <1902@imagen.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 13:23:18 GMT Organization: Imagen Corp., Santa Clara CA Lines: 12 The following appeared in the "Grab Bag" column of the San Francisco Examiner 9/25/88: The baya bird of India doesn't like the dark, evidently. With bits of moist clay it attaches fireflies to its nest. Am told the baya's nest at night looks like a street lamp. Anyone know how accurate this is, or what's the full story? My references at home say only that the baya is a weaver bird which eats insects and nuts. -- Mark Isaak {decwrl,sun}!imagen!isaak or imagen!isaak@decwrl.dec.com "Inquiry is fatal to certainty." - Will Durant