My first glowworm!

[Madelinew]

I was at cub camp at the weekend at Corfe near Newtown on the Isle of Wight. COming out of the toilet block one evening, I spotted something flourescent in the grass and thought it had been dropped by someone but it was a glowworm! Not only did I get a very blurry picture of it and bore everyone at my own section of the camp with "Look what I've just seen" but I also pointed it out to a child walking past who was suitably unimpressed.

Apparently there are loads around the site there.

I was very excited

[Hedge Witch]

I get where you are coming from, Madelinew. I felt exactly the same the first time I saw a glow worm. Luckily I was with someone who was also suitably impressed

[Ollie]

I haven't seen one for years so I would have shared your enthusiasm.

[kiwi]

I wish i was that child i would of been over the moon

[Madelinew]

Originally Posted by kiwi

I wish i was that child i would of been over the moon

Perhaps one day when she's older and spots one herself she'll remember the moment some wierdo accosted her outside a public toilet. Therefore she was probably having the correct reaction to me saying "Come and see what I've found"!

[Mike Jackson]

I remember my first and when I got home my wife was also impressed and we had to return the next night. We then had to go back a few nights later to show some friends. It's nice when others share your enthusiasm.

[tcvarlh]

One warm summer night 7 years ago as I lay lazily, gently tipsy, under the arms of my beloved Walnut in my hammock, I spotted a fallen star floating softly around my garden. I roused myself enough to notice three more little stars wafting around the greenery. I've never been so struck with childlike wonder as that night. They are magical little things and I wish I had them here. But if wishes were fished...
H

[Madelinew]

Originally Posted by tcvarlh

One warm summer night 7 years ago as I lay lazily, gently tipsy, under the arms of my beloved Walnut in my hammock, I spotted a fallen star floating softly around my garden. I roused myself enough to notice three more little stars wafting around the greenery. I've never been so struck with childlike wonder as that night. They are magical little things and I wish I had them here. But if wishes were fished...
H

Oh how wonderful and what a beautiful description. People of old must have thought they were some kind of sprite or fairy. I was also suitably excited a few years ago when picnicing in a field and was suddenly surrounded by mayflies dancing in the sunlight. Can't say my enthusiasm was shared with the more wimpish members of my party but the mayflies dipping floaty flight with those tails they have as they tried to attract mates en masse was beautiful

[RAINBOWRUSSELL]

How fantastic!In my youth there used to be a lot about...yes I was one of those who had them in a jar under the bed..strange though that they always seem to escape by the time I woke up in the morning.........don't know if my mum had anything to do with that!!!??!!!Bless her!
Last sightings for me were in the 70's,we had mates staying down at Durdle Door and there were some on the high hill between Lulworth & there...my mates kids were very impressed!
Then the last time...coming outta my of mates pub in Pamphill,Wimborne there were a couple by the car park......yes the cider was lovely thank you!!!
Is this a case that pesticides have killed a lot of them off???
And we get a lotta damsel flies here...my guests seem scared of them...I'm just running round trying to get pics...of the damsels ..not my mates!!!

[Madelinew]

Originally Posted by RAINBOWRUSSELL

And we get a lotta damsel flies here...my guests seem scared of them...I'm just running round trying to get pics...of the damsels ..not my mates!!!

They'd be useless here then. I keep having to fish them off the windowsill in my kitchen where they're busy mating - damsel flies, not your friends!