Glowworm or glow-worm is the common name for various groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence.

Females appear to be more commonly encountered than larvae. Because these glowing spots along the females body resemble the windows of train cars internally illuminated in the night, …

A railroad worm is a larva or larviform female adult of a beetle of the genus Phrixothrix in the family Phengodidae, characterized by the possession of two different colors of …

Generally, the term glow-worm is applied to species where adult females look like their larvae (known as larviform females), are wingless and emit a steady glow of light. The females' larval …

2006年6月14日 · Females emit light as a defensive mechanism; adult females appear to be larviform; Males have prominent branched antennae to detect the female's pheromones; …

Larval and larviform female glowworms are predators, feeding on millipedes and other arthropods occurring in soil and litter. The winged males, which are often attracted to lights at night, are …

2023年8月17日 · Adult males have variously shortened/narrowed soft elytra, branched antennae, and bulging eyes; adult females are larviform (often all but impossible to tell from fully-grown …

A Glow Worm isn’t in fact a worm at all, but is the common name for insect larvae and adult larviform females which glow. Specialised cells in the insects’ abdomen produce this...

2012年10月2日 · (Actually, glowworms can be either a larva, an immature form of an insect, or a larviform female, which is an adult form of a species, even though it resembles a larva.) As …

The term glow-worm is applied to the beetle families Phengodidae and Lampyridae. Both families contain species in which females are wingless and resemble larvae. Wingless females and …