| Glow
Worm Lampyris
noctiluca
(Linnaeus, 1758) |
| This is
perhaps one of the most well known of all beetles, but
one which we had never seen before 2008 and certainly
many others have probably never seen. It has a scattered
and declining distribution across Nottinghamshire, with a
stronghold in the Sherwood Forest area. Although it has
been found to have disappeared from many of it's former
Nottinghamshire localities, there is a likelyhood that
previously unknown sites may yet be discovered. Glow Worm
numbers have declined at many UK sites in recent years.
The distribution map at the bottom of this page, shows
Nottinghamshire's post-2000 Glow Worm records. |
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| Adult female
Glow Worm, photographed by day at Clipstone Old Quarter
June 2011 |
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| Adult male
Glow Worm, photographed by day at Clipstone Old Quarter,
June 2011 |
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| Adult male
Glow Worm, photographed by day at Clumber Park, June 2008 |
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| Adult female
Glow Worms, photographed by night at Clipstone Old
Quarter June 2008 |
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| Ovae, laid
by ex Clumber Park female on June 28th. |
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Newly hatched larva,
reared from eggs ex Clumber Park female and hatched July
26th 2008 |
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| Full grown
Glow Worm larva, photographed Clipstone Old Quarter,
early May 2008. Length 18mm. |
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Full grown
female larva feeding on Dusky Slug (Arion subfuscous)
at Clipstone Old Quarter larva. Length 28mm. Photographed
April 26th 2010. |
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| Female Glow
Worm pupa from ex Clipstone Old Quarter larva.
Photographed June 1st 2009. |
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| Adult female
Glow Worm, emerging from pupa (reared ex Clipstone Old
Quarter larvae) photographed June 10th 2009 |
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| Male Glow
Worm pupa from ex Clipstone Old Quarter larva,
photographed April 25th 2012. |
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| Male Glow
Worm pupae producing disturbance glows. |
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