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Glowworm

Lampyris noctiluca

Description:

Female

Habitat:

Forest

Notes:

It glows

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10 Comments

tibiprada
tibiprada 11 years ago

♥ ♥ ♥, ♥ ♥ ♥

Pochempie
Pochempie 11 years ago

Wow awesome!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Female Glowworm.

wijnandr
wijnandr 11 years ago

Thanks to you all. So unreal, but beautyfull :)

The MnMs
The MnMs 11 years ago

Please consider adding you spottings in belgium to the mission: "Biodiversity in Belgium". Link below:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1090...
Thanks!

The MnMs
The MnMs 11 years ago

Wow!! I did not know we had fireflies in Belgium. I must try to find them :-)

Nice capture of the glow!

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

It looks a lot like this:
http://www.zin.ru/ANIMAliA/COlEOPTERA/en...
I'm not completely happy with the Wikipedia link but I was having trouble finding a better source.
This one isn't bad if you read the descriptions:
http://www.glowworms.org.uk/ident.html

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

This is a glow-worm or firefly species. Very cool!

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Espectacular iluminación!!

wijnandr
Spotted by
wijnandr

Durbuy, Wallonie, Belgium

Spotted on Jul 26, 2012
Submitted on Jul 26, 2012

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