Thank you very much!

Thank you and Glory to the Glowworm Empire!

Thank you! I hope the colony will keep on going...

Well, there are other lampyrids (both larvae and larviform adults may be considered "worms'). There are also some closely related beetle groups, but I don't think they occur in the Americas. Some elaterids, however, do. There is e.g. Phyrophorus and Deilater even occurs in North America. Their wormy larvae can glow. Among the dipterans glowing Mycetophilidae (their larvae are the famous "glowworms" in caves of New Zealand) also come to mind. There is Orfelia fultoni in the USA e.g. ... If we are also talking South America and non-insect invertebrates, there is a bioluminescent earthworm (Microscolex phosphoreus) that was introduced to other regions (maybe including North and Meso America?)... There are also glowing centipedes in Germany. I dunno, if they are also found in the new world.

No, this plant species has a "regular diet"...

No, but you are closer now, too...

Nope! But it hits close to the target, actually...

Thanks for visiting

Thank you!

Thanks! Part two is already online at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaqqoZKNia-fq7c

King of the animals is not enough, apparently... Has to take over the plant world as well! Maybe we construct a vegan lion substitute from teeth, ears, etc.?

@@PeppersnGlowworms You should call it Lionel 😆

Actually, I thought about naming it the Earl Leon... Because its parent produced seeds so early on...

Actually, I considered naming this one: Earl Leon...

And I can be its Daddy Lion lecturing it about how "human beings are a disease"...

​@@PeppersnGlowwormslol makes sense, Grüße:)🎉

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🤫 Don't expose my secret plan to raise an army of lion-toothed plant warriors...

@@PeppersnGlowworms we are gonna get the guy that destroyed the first ones 😈

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Non-non-avian dinosaurs...

I have some of those. But these seeds will not grow to be carnivorous... 😉

I BOUGHT MINE AS A SMALL NUMBER OF SEEDS IN A LOCAL (PHYSICAL) HOT SHOP IN BERLIN YEARS AGO AND AM NOT KEEPING THIS VARIETY NOW. I GUESS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO ORDER IT ONLINE SOMEWHERE.

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Very interesting, thank you for those recommendations! Levisticum officinale ("Maggikraut" or "Liebstöckel") is well known and loved by me. Haven't kept it in the garden very often, though. More often I had "Currykraut" (Helichrysum italicum) because its smell brings me back to the beaches of Sardinia...

Nope, different family... 🙃

Good guess! But no, not Capsicum at all...

Wenn ein Tier (in Deutschland) fliegt und leuchtet, handelt es sich um adulte Männchen der Art Lamprohiza splendidula. Nachzuchten von Leuchtkäfern sind selten und meist an spezielle Forschungsvorhaben oder Projekte gebunden. Kommerziell kann man Leuchtkäfer (meines Wissens) nur in Japan erwerben. Biolumineszente Schnellkäfer scheinen in den USA gerade im Hobby etabliert zu werden. Meine Nachzucht Sardischer Glühwürmer (Lampyris sardiniae) erholt sich gerade wieder von einem kleinen Tief in der Populationsgröße. Ich verkaufe aber ohnehin keine Tiere! Es handelt sich nur um eine Hobby-Nachzucht. Gelegentlich kann ich ein paar Exemplare für Projekte aus den Bereichen Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kunst vergeben. Ggf. wäre irgendwann mal ein Tausch (z.B. gegen Triops cancriformis) möglich? Ansonsten ist Lampyris noctiluca praktisch genauso zu halten. Hier wäre der Start einer eigenen Nachzucht (unter Beachtung der lokalen Naturschutzgesetze und mit Rücksichtnahme auf die bestehenden Populationen) mit einigen wenigen Tieren aus der Umgebung möglich.

@@PeppersnGlowworms Guten morgen^^ Super, dann gibt's bei uns die Lamprohiza splendidula! Was die Lampyris noctiluca angeht, da konnte ich bisher leider noch keine Tiere finden. Dazu muss ich aber auch sagen, dass ich nie explizit danach gesucht habe😅 Ein Tausch wär auf jeden Fall machbar😊 Da könnte ich dir auch meine Artenliste schicken und du schaust dann, welche Arten/Varianten dir am ehesten zusprechen. Z.b. von den T. Cancriformis habe ich etwa 10 verschiedene Fundort Varianten und Zuchtformen^^ Bist du zufällig auch auf anderen Plattformen aktiv, wo ich dir privat schreiben kann? Oder soll ich dir eine Mail schreiben? LG Leon

Hallo, die Larven Lampyris noctiluca fangen im Frühjahr an, tagsüber umherzulaufen. In dieser Phase kann man sie gut auf Rad- und Fußwegen absammeln. Wenn du nach "Lampyris sardiniae" suchst, findest du meine Lima-City-Website und dort meine E-Mail-Adresse. Soziale Medien nutze ich (außer YT) nicht... Klingt ja sehr interessant mit den verschiedenen Triops Stämmen! Wie gesagt, die Sardischen Glühwürmer müssen sich aber erst noch etwas weiter vermehren. Und dann ist noch mindestens eine Person vor dir auf der Abgabeliste.

How's to say I did not? But Nature conservation laws can be a bit crazy and counterproductive sometimes. Therefore, there wouldn't be any recordings of me picking up a wild protected lizard. Could be regarded as "catching" it...

@@PeppersnGlowworms Oh, understandable. Unfortunately laws can be strange. Also in Switzerland you are not allowed to catch wild animals. But I think it is ok to put them away from the street. This even is the advice of the ornithological institute of Switzerland about fledglings: put them to a save place nearby. PS: you lizzard is a female Sand lizzard. (Lacerta agilis)

Ah, thank you! So, I did get the species right...

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Correct! That is why it is a common herping strategy to look for reptiles along roads. However, this was a somewhat cool morning with a thin layer of cold water on the floor and the sun did not show itself until noon was there.

Thank you!

Literally "cool" btw.

Probably to bribe me with glowworm food in order to make me move it to the side of the road...

Ja, das ist schon ein bisschen schrullig... 🙃

Most of the time, I kept the Sardinian glowworms, I did no or very little counting. And I do not have my old notebooks with me. But I would consider a slow loss up to 50 % not worrysome. I also had way worse and way better results. There were also two catastrophic crashes with near extinction of my breeding strain, that I have now since 2004... I suspect overcrowing and bad food (like wild snails that contain pesticides) to be the main culprits for such losses. Poor hygiene and high temperatures in summer may also be reasons. You seem to keep them in relatively small groups (i.e. clutchwise?), so I guess overcrowding is not the issue (also depending on the size of the rearing container, though). If you think underfeeding is the problem, you can just powerfeed them. Give them fresh food every day or so and remove old food also, untill they lose interest in food. Feeding them for a few days like this once a week should be more then enough. Back in the day, I simply kept small live prey permanently with the larvae, but now I think that may have cost me some specimens from being eaten by the prey when in molt... Are you keeping Lampyris, too? Or is it Nyctophila? Those two genera should do well with my methods. You have seen my main videos on rearing glowworms, right? I hope your glowworms will do well...

I found your comment from last summer... So it's Luciola lusitanica, right? I had success with a Luciola species and raised a very small number of eggs with zero losses to adulthood. Sadly, those were all male, so I could not continue...

You're welcome!

A very "dirty" Sea-Monkey tank...

And it's "Sea-Donkeys" in this case, I guess... (Asellus means donkey in English)

@@PeppersnGlowworms 😮 id Buy that.

@@dizzydragon It seems invoking the ivolvement of monetary value made YT hold your last comment... I had to unlock it in the proper YT Studio. The app only gave error messages... Anyway, once again you inspired me! I shall henceforth refer to my freshwater isopods as the "Adorkable Sea-Donkeys". I bet some A.I. can make some funny thumbnails for that...

I had not really counted them for many years, but I think the numbers stayed more or less sameish. Just in recent years, there were two near population crashes. And when I tried to raise the number again, I was irritated than after successfully getting lots of adults, I got not that many eggs from them. That is why I am now counting and separating egg clutches...

Its verry good,you have great filming and editing skills.

Well, let's say I (and my gear, hard/software) have improved a bit...

I think they would... Whether that would be a sufficient long term food source? Probably not...

And those hard shelled larvae would certainly have to be served in pieces, so that the glowworms have access to the juicy insides...

Very nice! I assume you keep them in separate tubs. Or do you have a mixed group? That would be an awesome mix to look at, I imagine...

Thank you!