05.07

The article I decided to read was about glow worms. Glow worms’ name practically describes them. These worms live almost everywhere in the world, but their main locations are in caves. These slimy creatures are wrapped in larvae until they reach about 25 mm. they also have little bioluminescent or light at their bottoms that make caves look like the night sky twinkling with stars. These insects are very beautiful when seen in a dark cave, but people especially other insects should not be deceived by the glow worms’ beauty.  Glow worms look like the most harmless creatures until they want to eat. The worms stay on the tops of caves and make long sticky strings of  mucus that reach up to two feet long and hang from the caves like beautiful ice sicles, and there’s not a couple of these strings, there are hundreds of them in caves. Once the glow worm finishes making these mucus strings, their lights are used to lure other flying insects into the mucus traps. Once trapped, the worms pull up their meal and have a feast. When I read this I didn’t quite understand what the writer was talking about, so to get more information I looked up other information on the worms and I looked up a video. I must say that the video really helped me out in visualizing this creature’s action and I was stunned to see such beautiful insects be so graciously vicious! I think the author’s intention on writing this article was to inform readers and it was great to see the author use organization patterns such as, classification and cause and effect.