Glow Worms Articles
Why Does Phosphorescence Glow?
PHOSPHORESCENCE is caused by materials in the bodies of microscopic marine organisms known as dinoflagellates. They glow when they are disturbed or attacked and, if there are enough of them about, can be made to fire up just by sweeping your hand through the water.
Going Underground
The Lost World is an abyss decorated with glow-worms and ferns - accessed from above. Louise Southerden drops in for a stickybeak.
Glow-in-the-dark Bliss
IT'S A cliche but a good one. Nothing can describe the glow-worms on the cave walls and ceiling above the underground river as clearly as by saying they look like constellations of stars. Yet the Milky Way never looked this bright on its best night, nor this massive and..read more
Five Things To Do In The Mountains
1 UNDERGROUND river caving. A two-to-three-hour adventure at Mount Buffalo that takes you through an underground cave system. Crawl through water-filled tunnels and caverns, see glow worms and crawl up miniature waterfalls. Tel. Adventure Guides Australia 5728 1804. 2 FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE sunset tou
Haute Couture Laid Bare
THE VERY title of this Canadian magazine-style series is a giveaway: we are here to ooh and aah at the flittings of the designer butterflies and glow-worms that light up the fashion industry. Which, as an amateur fashion aficionado, I am always happy to do. Hell, I even don't..read more
