Subsequent appearance of an adult helps to explain why you may find plenty on a site one year, yet few or none at all the next. The two- or maybe even three-year gap between a mating and the On small snails which they apparently paralyse before sucking them empty. Each individual female has an adult glowing life of no more than a few weeks until she mates, since she dies soonĪfter a few weeks the eggs hatch into larvae, and they remain as larvae for one or two further summers, feeding The glow worm, Lampyris noctiluca, is not at all worm-like but is a beetle up to 25 mm long. What is needed is the widest possible survey of the remaining glow-worm habitats, which is where you can help. Surveys over the years, researchers are still in the dark over the factors affecting the decline of glow worms, and even if they areĭeclining everywhere. Yet they are still to be found, and they may be more common than you think. The survey has been publicised in particular by the Weekend Telegraph (July 2006), National Trust magazine (Summer 2005),īBC Wildlife Magazine, on BBC Radio 4, and by BBC TV’s Country File and Springwatch.Īs we travel in our cars from one brightly streetlit area to another, we are unlikely to notice the tiny lights of glow-worms,Ībout as bright as an LED indicator on a TV. We do not send out any junk mail or sell address lists! You can add pictures to your records using the report form. The survey is now run within the national iRecord database, so results are stored securely and nationally. Night! You can report a site to us by filling in an So if you have glow worms in your garden please tell us without worrying that you will get hordes of unwanted visitors in the dead of Please note that we never give out or list details of glow worm sites on private land, other than to bona fide researchers, Survey has shown that there are in fact hundreds of sites throughout the UK where they can be seen, and more sites are reported every year. Before the survey started, it was said that there were fewer than 100 sites where glow worms could be found in the UK.

Information comes mostly from members of the public who see glow worms and want to know more about It is run by Robin Scagell, and has no official status,įunding or affiliation, but exists solely to gather information about a fascinating insect that most people don’t even Were you looking for The Gloworms folk music band? Click here Your Frequently Asked Questions about glow worms answered.Historical list of glow worm sites county by county.

Download glow worms and fireflies