The problem is capturing the magic of a glow worm colony is about as hard as trying to film real fairies at the bottom of the garden! The first challenge is that they switch on their lights in the ...

Some people pay to witness glow-worms' breeding season in June and July ... To attract the males he uses green LEDs to imitate the glow of a real female. He says he marks the insects with tiny ...

"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 ...

But one of the most arresting creatures is Arachnocampa luminosa, or the New Zealand glow worm, which emits a blue-green ...

(Oh, Colours of the Wind is in my head now.) I wish I could show you pictures of the glow worms. When we found them, at the foot of a small waterfall, they were festooned all around what could be ...