Glow-worms do indeed have poo. But of course this does NOT glow! They discard their excrement (a tiny black smudge) outside the snare presumably to decrease fungal attack.

A chemical reaction with the light-emitting enzyme luciferase produces their illuminations. But glow-worms can’t easily control the supply of oxygen, so they can’t flash their lights on and off like some other firefly species. Instead they produce a sustained stream of light.

What do glow-worms eat? Glow worms do all their eating as larvae. They feed on slugs and snails by injecting their digestive juices into their prey and drinking the digested remains.

This particular species of glowworm can only be found in New Zealand and parts of Australia. Glowworms in other parts of the world actually refer to beetles, making our glowworms unique. Don’t miss this special opportunity to see nature at its best and book a tour to the Te Anau glowworm caves today!

The Glow Worm adults live for a short time only; 1-2 days for the female and 3-5 days days for the male. The adults cannot eat, only the larvae being able to ingest food. The adult is slightly larger than the mosquito, about 15 mm long.

Glow-worms are well distributed across much of England and Wales, although they are rare in Scotland. They are at their most numerous on calcareous grasslands where there are plenty of small snail species for them to feed on. So try visiting your local grassland nature reserve after dark, and see what you can find.

Both the firefly larvae and wingless females can also be also known as glow worms. The larvae of the firefly has a flat, segmented body resembling a kind of serrated flatworm.

You can get an original Gloworm, in good condition, for around $40.

Previous surveys have shown that there are significant populations of these creatures in the North Devon Biosphere, and where they exist they continue to offer one of the most enchanting of all summer wildlife watching experiences. Anyone who has ever seen a glow-worm will remember the experience.

Glow worm season is during the warmer months of the year, between December to March. They are usually found in wet habitats, so caves and rainforests are usually the places that these little organisms tend to dwell in.

Glow worms have a luminescent glow called bioluminescence or glowing light, to attract small insects that emerge from the leaf litter and water to where the glow worms reside.

Unfortunately, glow worms are no better protected than, say, woodlice. But local authorities will often make efforts to protect the colony if they know it is there, because of the great appeal of glow worms.

The larvae are armed with hooked jaws that they use to nip at their prey over and over again. Each bite injects a small amount of toxin which slowly starts to dissolve the proteins that make up the slug or snail. This rather gruesome process ends with the glow worm slurping up a snail soup.

Glowworms only glow when they feed and their best displays are usually during the warmer, wetter months of the year. Glowworms are very sensitive to changes to their environment. Exposure to lights, smoke and insect repellent stops them from glowing and feeding and can kill them.

The glow worms are only visible at night. You can walk to the cave by yourself or take a guided tour, which you can find on the internet. You must remember, that if you shine a torch or bright light at the glow worms, they will stop shining for up to an hour.

No, glow worms are not poisonous to humans, but some species emit a toxic substance that immobilizes their prey.

Read the poem giv (c) The glow-worm was scared because he sensed the intention of nightingale. He knew that nightingale was hungry and had been intending to eat him. So, they should provide cheer and harmony to the world and thus, nightingale should not eat him.

no ,The Nightingale did not consume the glow worm as he had realised that it is wrong to eat him as he also deserves a life .

At night, the nightingale who is hungry after singing, hunts down the glow worm as his meal. However in the end he loses his prey. The glow worm further continues to mention that as the nightingale brightens and makes the day cheerful the glow worm decorates the night with its light.

He looked around to find something to eat and noticed a glow-worm on the ground. He wanted to make the worm his meal in order to satiate his hunger. just as the glow-worm would abhor spoiling the nightingale’s song. The nightingale was quite influenced and impressed by the glow-worm’s eloquent oration (speech).

Answer: The nightingale did not consume the glow-worm because he was impressed by the glow worm’s speech.

The glowworm save his own life from the Nightingale by using his presence of mind. He discovers that the Nightingale has an intention to eat the Glow- Worm. He explains her that the way she spreads happiness in the world using her beautiful voice, he also does the same. He spreads through light to the world.

Being jealous, the frog took the nightingale into confidence and made an evil plan to get rid of her. He became her trainer and made her sing excessively for long hours.

He wants her to aim at earning more and more money. He reminds her that she still owes him sixty shillings (he is referring to the fee that she must pay him for the music training). Grew more sorrowful and pale. With each passing day the nightingale became sad and weak.

1. What did the frog do all the day? Ans. He slept conveniently all day on a log.

Summary: Once a frog lived in a swamp. Every night, the frog used to croak from dusk to down continuously. His voice was so bad that all other creatures were highly disturbed but they had no choice. They had to put up with such a horrible singing every night.

The moral of the poem “The Frog and the Nightingale” by Vikram Seth is that one should not be persuaded by flattery to be something one is not. When the nightingale first shows up in the bog, she has a beautiful voice. When she sings to “the whole admiring bog,” they are rapt with admiration and attention.

Answer: the frog asserts his importance on the bog by singing without considering others’ convenience. The noise he makes leaves other frustrated but that does not deter him from croaking on and on. He comes to the nightingale to assert his importance and lies to her about his interest in singing.