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Arachnocampa richardsae
Glow worms at the NSW Southern Highlands.
Found in a crack in a rock face next to a creek.
Glow worms produce sticky drops of mucus, which they hang from the roof of a ledge. They product biolumenescence, which attracts insect prey that get ensnared in the mucus.
Spotted on Sep 30, 2014
Submitted on Oct 12, 2014
20 Comments
Fantastic!
Wow! I missed this one .. great SOTD Boaz ... Congratulations!
Awesome Boaz,just beautiful,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Congrats Boaz N!!
Thats a great spotting and photo! Congrats!
its like its from another world..... very beautiful
I am from India....and our festival of lights is approaching (Diwali) and all houses will soon look like this....looks like you kick-started the season. Fabulous shot. Thank you for sharing and Congrats on the SOTD.
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Nice!!
Spectacular ! Well done and thanks for sharing.
One on my bucket list..
Beauty !
Great find. Well done !!
I hadn't heard about this!!Thanks for sharing!!
Great photo, could be the front cover of a sci-fi
Awesome spotting, Boaz. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent. I keep meaning to get down to Hastings cave and see them here in Tasmania. Good job of lighting them. You might put in your description that "glow worms" are actually the carnivorous larvae (or maggot) of a mosquito-like fly. They use that sticky string to catch flies to eat.
Awesome! I've always wanted to see these in real life.
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