There is also another glow worm hot spot in the Blue Mountains – at Horseshoe Falls. And another south of Sydney, in Helensburgh. As the name suggests, the main attraction here is the glow worms.

Fireflies light up a dark and muggy old railway tunnel like stars brighten the night sky at the path in Wollemi National Park, west of Sydney in ... The walk to the glow worm tunnel is stunning ...

Explore the glow worm colonies of New Zealand's Waitomo Caves. The glow worm colonies of New Zealand's Waitomo Caves imitate stars to confuse flying insects, then trap them in sticky snares and ...

New Zealand's 30-million-year-old limestone caves, with their walls lined with mesmerising bioluminescent glow worms, are a photographer's dream. This is far from the first time Arachnocampa ...

The network of caves attracts thousands of tourists each year who come to see the glow worms, an usual species with a bio-luminescent glow similar to that of a firefly. Another American tourist died ...

See stalactites and stalagmites, listen to the sound of rushing waterfalls and discover how glow worms produce their signature light on a tour of this fascinating cave in the Waitomo District.

In the larval form, the glow-worm builds a mucous tube up to 40 centimetres long along the cave ceiling. It then shuttles back and forth along the tube, spewing dozens of long silk threads from ...