Female glowworms with brighter lights found to attract more mates and to produce more offspring

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers affiliated with the University of Oulu and the University of Helsinki, both in Finland, has found that female glowworms that have a brighter light tend to attract more mates and to produce more offspring. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the team describes their two-pronged research project and what they learned in studying the common beetle.

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