Glow-worm urine is the most likely source of this urea, von Byern says. The glue was made of urea and a yet-to-be-identified peptide. The droplets were found to be composed of 99 per cent water and 1 per cent glue. To address this, Janek von Byern at the University of Vienna, Austria, and his colleagues analysed droplet samples from two glow-worm caves in Waitomo on the north island of New Zealand. Urine dropletsĪlthough this process has been studied with the naked eye, the composition and mechanism of the sticky droplet traps were unknown. Once the insect is stuck, the larva uses its mouth to haul up the fishing line and swallow the prey. These droplets trap flying insects attracted to the blue-green light emitted by the tail of the larva. It then shuttles back and forth along the tube, spewing dozens of long silk threads from its mouth that it leaves dangling from the tube.Įach thread is up to half a metre long and beaded with sticky, mucous-like droplets. In the larval form, the glow-worm builds a mucous tube up to 40 centimetres long along the cave ceiling. Even if it doesn't help, it still lasts for a whole hour regardless, very nice for long periods of fishing.Arachnocampa luminosa lives in wet caves, spending about nine months as a larva, before growing wings and turning into a fungus gnat that survives for just a few days, during which time it mates. I recommend a Glow Worm if you plan to do any heavy duty fishing achievements that you think are going to take awhile. I put on a glow worm, about 80 casts later I catch it. I spent 1 Aquadynamic Fish Attractor and about 8 Sharpened Fish Hooks, having caught close to 600 fish. This one I just started out with a Glow Worm, assuming I'd be there for awhile. Then I decided to add a Glow Worm and it was caught 67 casts later. I was already at 500 skill fishing even without a lure at all, so I fished for a couple hours without a lure. For comparison, I did not use a Glow Worm for this, and spent 4-5 hours on it. The following have been caught within the use of only 1 Glow Worm, before it expired.

Comment by Thortok2000Your mileage may vary, but I've noticed that using a Glow Worm instead of any other +100 fishing lure cause rare fish to drop more often.

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