fireworm

According to USA Today, Texas Parks and Wildlife identified the creature from a video sent to them by Ramirez: It was a bearded fireworm.

Jared Oakes, 34, grew up next door to the cranberry farm he now manages with his wife, Jessica Tantisook, 28, a transplant from Nashville, Tenn. Oakes said the cranberry industry traditionally has used lots of pesticides to fight pests, such as the intimidatingly named black-headed fireworm, and herbicides to fight bog-loving weeds.

Jared Oakes, 34, grew up next door to the cranberry farm he now manages with his wife, Jessica Tantisook, 28, a transplant from Nashville, Tenn. Oakes said the cranberry industry traditionally has used lots of pesticides to fight pests, such as the intimidatingly named black-headed fireworm, and herbicides to fight bog-loving weeds.

From June to September, Dr. Smith regularly takes visitors to well-known fireworm breeding waters where they can enjoy the sunset and, soon after, see the green glow of the circling females and the pulse of the males following them.