swoopie


a word coined by the eminent wildlife photographer alex wild to describe the flight pattern of a certain species of firefly (or lightning bug, a beetle from the family lampyridae), particularly when such flight is captured on a composite stack of photographic images.
this photo shows two species around sunset, one making spots along the ground, and the other doing swoopies higher in the air.

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