A few nights ago Tom and Harry did a glow worm walk in Park Copse between 10-11pm. Glow worms spend several years under ground and then the females emerge and climb up the grass and glow to attract a male. We found five females glowing and three of them had males mating with them. Three of them were in long grass round the boggy patch at the intersectino of the east west ride and main track and another was by one of the ponds. One was by a pond which had been smothered by brambles until we cleared it last winter. We are planing to extend the ponds this year and increase the amount of boggy areas and hopefully this will benefit the glow worms. We have added these observations to the Glow-worm project on iRecord which is managed by the UK Glow-worm survey.
