Glow-worms

Glow-worms have suffered in recent years through a combination of habitat loss and light pollution.

Weatherwatch: glow-worms 2011

Glow-worms would have been a familiar sight to our rural ancestors, and unsurprisingly figure in our weather forecasting folklore.

Weatherwatch: glow-worms 2011

'Glow-worms,' said Moominmamma, but they had no time to stop and take a closer look at them.

Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

Glow-worms, brighter than lamps or candles, spike the fields with their lemon fires, while huge horned beetles stumble out of the dark and buzz blindly around our heads.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

Glow-worms do not fall in love with stars or thistles with sycamores.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Glow-worms and crickets are not such bad bedfellows. '

The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

It is where I keep the unemployed Stars, my personal Perfumes, a few Glimmers that belong to me, such as Will-o'-the-Wisps, Glow-worms and Fireflies, also the Dew, the Song of the Nightingales and so on ....

The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

Those papers are of interest to the collector of literary curiosities as being beyond a doubt the original rough draft of that remarkable work "Illusion," then better known as -- let me see, was it "Glow-worms"? no -- something like it, "Glamour!"

The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895

Glow-worms we see and marshlights; sing us sweet songs of those

The Rainbow and the Rose 1891

Glow-worms were beginning to shine here and there at the foot of the furze-bushes.

Vixen, Volume I. 1875