Glow Worms Trap Insects With Bioluminescent 'Fishing Lines'🪱 Into The Wild New Zealand | Smithsonian

Glow worms produce a series of strands which act as bioluminescent 'fishing lines', trapping unsuspecting insects. Once that happens, the glow worm will reel them in and suck out their juices.
From: Into the Wild New Zealand
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Imagine your whole life was hanging from the roof of a cave waiting to catch bugs on your sticky drool to eat.

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What I've been wanting to do all my life

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That IS my life. 🤣

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Imagine your whole life, walking around on a spinning rock, spending our short lives arguing and divided instead of bettering the human condition…..

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Fascinating... beautiful. The Glow Worm kinda behaves like a spider in its hunting techniques. Instead of silk it uses spit. Amazing.

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I remember learning that “glow worms” were just flightless female fireflies who were trying to find a mate... is this their side hustle?

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Notice the narrator’s English accent comes and goes and he sounds like an Aussie towards the end.
Fascinating.

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That shinny hinny is a useful tool.

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Now, that’s what you call a fisherman.

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Fascinating

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Snot a problem.

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Bugs Eater 😢

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Gross and cool

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Wou! Bug's

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Darn, I thought they were fairy lights…

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Yeah this kind of thing just "evolved" lol

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clearly you didn’t

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@@Ollybollyk Correct, humans did not evolve.