A few years ago a most peculiar insect flew into my office and landed on my sweater. Its antennae were huge in comparison to the size of the insect. I contacted my friend Eric Eaton who is an expert entomologist who told me I had a male Glowworm Beetle. He gave me this link with scientific information about this glowworm.
I recall going fishing with my family on a riverbank in Indiana at night as a child when my mom commented on the Glowworms on the river bank. Had it not been for that experience, I would have had no clue about Glowworms.
I still have some unanswered questions. I spent some time this week trying to learn more about them. I learned that the larva stage glows in the dark. Females continue to glow in the dark and their appearance doesn’t change much from the larva stage to the adult stage. They don’t grow wings, but the adults have only six legs. The large antennae and wings are only seen on the adult male beetles.
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