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Just been outside and looked along the hedgerow, convinced there is a glow worm or something which glows intermittanly there. Am i seeing things?Is it a possibility? or a glow worm. Any experts ??

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A Bientot
Jerseybean

Probably not ATTOY as the males fly from June to July only so females would not emit a glow yet. Slugs and snails do become "Luminous" sometimes.
It could be this. Try and see what the "Light is" with Global warming you never really know do you?
Benacre

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The glow worm, Lampyris noctiluca, is not at all worm-like but is a beetle up to 25 mm long. Only the wingless female glows strongly, to attract the flying males. Each individual female has an adult glowing life of only a few weeks until she mates, since she dies soon after laying her eggs.

...and they glow!!!!!!!!!!

glow worms

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

I would have thought you would get glow worms in Jersey - but not in January.

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

There is also a centipede like creature which glows like the stars you put on a childs ceiling. This is to protect from predators. If you catch it by day it is orange but by night it begins to glow. If you shake the jar it glows more. Just looked it up (geophilus carpophagus) By day you can identify it as orange but having slightly shorter legs than the average centipede .

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