The bright lights of big cities are wonders of the modern world; intended to help us work, stay safe and enjoy the world around us long after the sun has set. While artificial light has been great for ...

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A "record" number of female glow-worms have been found in Rutland despite a "huge decline" in numbers of the insect over the last 30 years. Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) said 86 ...

Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...

The BDA Glow Worm Society arose out of a joke. A few years ago, boat pilot and diver Chris Gauntlett posted a question on social media, asking when the glow worms would be out. Every month during the ...

Do you call them fireflies or lightning bugs? Or do you have another name for these insects that are neither bugs nor flies but bioluminescent beetles? A new book, "Fireflies, Glow-worms, and ...

Scientists have discovered 30 new species in the deep recesses of the Southern Ocean, including iridescent scale worms and a ...

The world of small, slender roundworms is the embodiment of “this is the future that liberals want” — as prophesied by someone like Jordan Peterson. It’s not that the species Mesorhabditis belari ...

In this episode, Katherine Rundell explores the quiet brilliance of the glow-worm - a creature that once lit homes and battlefields, and now struggles to survive in a world flooded with artificial ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Artificial light at night is increasing globally, interfering with both sensory ecology and temporal rhythms of organisms, from zooplankton to ...

Although glow-worms emit light at all stages of their life cycle, it is only adult females that "really glow" A "record" number of female glow-worms have been found in Rutland despite a "huge decline" ...