DOMINION’S GLOW-WORMS.
ENTOMOLOGIST’S RESEARCH.
SPECIMENS FROM WAITOMO
Some interesting researches into New Zealand’s glow-worms have begun by Mr. A. Tonnoir, entomologist: at Canterbury Museum. He has returned to Christchurch from a visit to the North Island caves in which those insects live. Among them are the Waitomo Caves, “the heavenly splendour of which,” he states, “cannot lie surpassed by any others.”
Mr. Tonnoir has been able to bring back from Waitomo several hundred live glow-worms which are now spinning their webs on the cement roof of an underground tunnel specially prepared for them in the Canterbury Museum grounds. These specimens which he intends to keep under close observation will help him to solve many points of their life history and chiefly to make researches into the nature and the mechanism of their wonderful light.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3009, 11 March 1926, Page 1
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134DOMINION’S GLOW-WORMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3009, 11 March 1926, Page 1
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