They like to inhabit well protected, shaded and humid locations such as caves and rock ledges.Larvae create an elaborate vertical-hanging trap of threaded mucus drops to snare small insects like midges and fruit flies.Glow worms are not actually worms – they are the larvae stage of a large mosquito-like fly.

It encourages wonderful scientific discussions about their glowing butt, and it allows children to experience an unusual type of wildlife species. Firstly, it allows children to get up-close to the little larvae and see them in proportion (I honesty thought they were the size of an earthworm). Visiting a glow worm cave is a fascinating experience. It was dark, it echoed, it had dripping water, it had stalactites and stalagmites… but best of all, it had those little creatures that shine light from their bottoms! Kids love visiting glow worm caves It wasn’t a real cave, but an artificial one. Well, we finally followed up on our cave lesson by visiting a cave! In a previous post about wildlife cave play, I suggested you investigate a wildlife habitat at home if you couldn’t get to one easily.

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