Glow-worms are a group of beetles that use their luminosity to help them flag down an appropriate mate. Glow-worms belong to the family Lampyridae. The beetles in this group are commonly known as ...

Gear up with a wet suit and head lamp to explore the depths of New Zealand's unique and fascinating glow worm caves on this ...

As noted, fireflies glow when they combine chemicals in their ... fireflies also thrive on diets of slugs, snails, worms, and pollen. Some do not eat once they pass the larval stage.

So what's happening inside the firefly's light cells? What's the secret to its glow? In the 19th century, French pharmacologist Raphaël Dubois, working with bioluminescent clams, discovered that ...

Scientists estimated that fireflies evolved aerial bioluminescence, the ability to glow during flight, at least 100 million years ago in a July 2022 study that analyzed the first Mesozoic ...

Nature Photonics spoke to Yoriko Ando from the University of Tokyo about her recent quantitative analysis of the effect in fireflies. It is a chemiluminescence reaction that takes place in ...

You’ve probably seen or heard at least once in your lifetime about fireflies – the famous light-emitting insects! They form ...

Some people pay to witness glow-worms' breeding season in June and July. It’s late at night on the South Downs as a group of ardent wildlife spotters gather round a pair of glow-worms appearing ...

"The fascination of glow worms for me is that they are in effect magic," says ecologist Pete Cooper, as he tramples through thistles and nettles. "The glow worm has been the symbol of the other ...

One of the most ambitious and ultimately magical shoots of the entire series was trying to capture the mass spectacle of glow worms in a dark, wet forest. ...although their bioluminescence is easy ...