Kuantan Firefly Watching Tour

The drive up North to Chukai, Kemaman from Kuantan takes one hour. If desired, dinner can be arranged at the one of the popular Seafood Restaurant before proceeding to Yakyah River, which is a short drive away. Here, board the boat be paddle along the river. You will notice immediately the fireflies along the riverbanks. On some preferred tress, countless would gather creating a merry atmosphere and the national electrical board would some to mind. Firefly or lighting bug is a small, luminescent carnivorous beetle of the lampyridae species. They are nocturnal in their behavior and it’s the male that commonly fly about. The female, are wingless. Male, female and larvae emits heatless, greenish yellow to reddish orange light in the organ located in the underside of the abdomen.