Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Baya bird and fireflies Message-ID: <1050@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 27 Sep 88 17:15:22 GMT References: <1902@imagen.UUCP> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: sci.bio Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 22 In article <1902@imagen.UUCP> isaak@imagen.UUCP (Mark Isaak) writes: >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. Would all those who see it coming PLEASE not subject yourselves to the following: Maybe the baya bird just enjoys a light snack of an evening... --Blair "Some of us find it harder to shake this monkey from our backs..."