Jewels
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:10 am
Glow worms at Tamborine - In order to survive glow worms build elaborate traps consisting of anywhere between 10 to 50 plus vertical hanging threads of silk studded with sticky droplets of mucous to catch small insects such as mosquitoes, midges, fruit-fly, gnats etc. that are attracted by the light produced by the glow worm.
The pendulous web strands are attached to a lattice-work of silk threads across the ceiling of their lair. In turn the threads support the suspended mucous tube in which the glow worm resides and travels, enabling the glow worm to be attracted to the vibration of trapped insects. (http://springbrook.info/glow_worms/about_worms.htm)
The glow worm is the slightly green/blue coloured blob in the middle 