Talk:Glowworm

Graffiti

I'm not an editor, so I'm leaving it alone to reduce the risk of screwing up the code on the page, but this page needs clean-up after some relatively obvious vandalism. 75.176.108.7 (talk) 03:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Fuck yeah! RobloxEventIzBezt (talk) 14:39, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Survey article

As a suggestion, I think the term "glowworm" is used often enough and loosely enough that this article could usefully be a page and half survey of general information on the types of glowworms (3 families and 2 mechanisms for glowing, or whatever it is) instead of just a disambig. Something not too technical hopefully, since no doubt anyone technical would go straight for the scientific names. -- Kevin Ryde 00:23, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

picture

Does someone out there have good pictures of glowworms? If not, I will go out and take some. I am sure I can come up with some lampyrid larvae. -- WormRunner 02:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Florida

Are there any Gloworms in Florida? If so, what times of year can they be found?

Just on winter vacations. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 00:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Luciola

I've changed the phrase to read Additionally, in British English a Firefly commonly refers to members of the Luciola family common throughout Europe, in which both the males and the flightless females glow.. Another editor is reverting with a sentence referring to a non-existant species and implying that Luciola is found in the British Isles. Other opinions on this are welcome. --HighKing (talk) 13:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay, but I've amended your version slightly so as to restore a geographical referent - the other listed variants have one. ðarkuncoll 15:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Since we are dealing with a language variant on a term, it is appropriate to identify the language variant (British English) and not the geographical region. I've amended the sentence to remove any particular classification. If you insist, perhaps we should just remove the offending sentence entirely. It doesn't add much anyway, and is uncited and unreferenced. --HighKing (talk) 11:26, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

What, precisely, is your objection? I've restored it. ðarkuncoll 11:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

The term "Firefly" commonly refers to members of the Luciola family, as well as the more common insect arachnocampa. You are asserting that this alternative usage is limited to the British Isles - but you have to date been unable to provide a reference. I have changed the text so that the alternative use is mentioned, but the scope of alternative usage is widened to be as inclusive as possible. --HighKing (talk) 12:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

If you stated the real reason why you are attempting to remove British Isles from Wikipedia, people might have a little more respect for your opinions. ðarkuncoll 12:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

In the absence of a reason or a reference, you resort to attacking the editor. Your first reversions were inaccurate, and your most recent states that the term British Isles should be used because arachnocampa occurs in the Isle of Man. Well it also occurs throughout Europe, but you deleted that suggested sentence. Give a reason for including the term "British Isles" in this sentence - it's inaccurate and goes against all the guidelines suggested during the recent taskforce discussions at WP:BISLES. --HighKing (talk) 10:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The only thing it goes against is your personal agenda. I say leave it alone. LemonMonday (talk) 11:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Should be glow-worm, not one word

I believe this article should be renamed glow-worm to agree with the British spelling. A note could be added that Americans accept the spelling "glowworm." DBlomgren (talk) 10:02, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

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