10 short facts about the most magical cave of the world Bashny.Net

Cave, which is located in the jungles of New Zealand, for 30 million years. It is here that there is a very unusual phenomenon, which simply does not exist anywhere in the world. < 1. Deep under dark and warm vaults, live colonies of unusual worms emitting blue-green light, strong enough to illuminate the entire cave. Website learned that these wonderful and strange creatures called Arachnocampa Luminosa. The researchers say that their mind as much old as the cave.





2. These fireflies are found only in New Zealand and eastern Australia.





3. Australian shine not as intense, and not gather in large groups.





4. The ceiling of the cave is a favorite nesting place of unusual worms.





5. Light Arachnocampa used to attract more small insects that feed on and kind.





6. If the cave gets light, Arachnocampa are completely invisible to the human eye.





7. These insects are active only at night. Observers describe the experience of visiting the cave, as a stay under the stars on a dark night.





8. The beauty of these fireflies is very fleeting. Separate individual lives one day.





9. Arachnocampa afraid of smoke. Burning Torch scares them in a few minutes.





10. This is one of the few terrestrial species, which are able to glow. Most bioluminescent species live under water.





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