Thanks to Cedar Creek Estate for supplying the photo of the glow worm webs.First things first: make sure you’re shooting in raw! This will make getting that perfect photo much easier as it is much higher quality than JPEG. To protect the little creatures and keep them glowing their brightest for other visitors (they can turn their glow off if something brighter comes along) we weren’t able to take any photographs. Visiting a glow worm cave can be a stand-alone activity or you can include it with many other learning opportunities. Learn more in-depth information about the chemicals that cause their bottoms to glow.If you haven’t already made a cave and created glow worms, do.See if your child can answer these questions after your visit as well. Spiders tend to make their webs near or around the glow worms and they capture large insects before they collide with glow-worms and their webs.īefore visiting, ask your child these questions: Glow worms, believe it or not, co-exist well with spiders.Their bums glow as a result of a chemical reaction between body products and oxygen in the enlarged tips of the larvae’s excretory tubes.

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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