Chris Packham - Nature’s Top 40 - Britain’s Best Wildlife

Although found all over Britain, glow-worm colonies are most abundant in southern England. They can be seen in grassland of every type, apart from sites that have been ‘improved’ with fertiliser or heavily sprayed with insecticides, and also occur in moorland, heathland and occasionally woodland. The spectacle is mostly a rural phenomenon, and country anecdotes abound of glow-worms being put in jam jars to read by at night!

The last 50 years are thought to have seen a steady fall in the number of colonies thanks to the usual lethal cocktail of habitat destruction, fragmentation and pollution. Artificial lights may well also present a problem as the males could be distracted by the lights and find it difficult to spot the females in the glare. Let’s hope, however, that these magnificent insects continue to bring light into our lives for many years to come.

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