MY SURVEY
This is the survey that I designed to test people's knowledge about glow-worms. I soon found out that the average person had no knowledge of them at all, and could only hazard a wild guess! I quickly discovered that, the older the person, the more likely they were to get the answers correct, and also to have seen glow-worms. Most children, and their parents, knew ZILCH! This means that knowledge and understanding of them will disappear with the older generation. Out of one hundred people surveyed, only three knew that glow-worms were beetles, or that they eat snails. So, if glow-worms are to survive for MY generation's children to see, then the rest of us need to learn to appreciate and look after them. FAST!
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LIGHT THE PATH TO THEIR FUTURE |
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| Tick ALL answers that you think are correct - one or more for each question. | |||||||
| 1) | What type of creature is a glow worm? | a) | a legless grub | e) | a fly | ||
| b) | a caterpillar | f) | a worm | ||||
| c) | a stick insect | g) | a beetle | ||||
| d) | a moth | ||||||
| 2) | Which of these can glow? | a) | the egg | d) | the female | ||
| b) | the immature worm | e) | none in this country | ||||
| c) | the male | ||||||
| 3) | What do glow worms eat? | a) | apples and pears | d) | rotting flesh | ||
| b) | grass heads/seeds | e) | insects | ||||
| c) | snails | ||||||
| 4) | What is their average full life-span? | a) | 10 days | d) | 5 years | ||
| b) | 3 months | e) | 10 years or more | ||||
| c) | 2 years | ||||||
| 5) | What makes them glow? | a) | reflected light | d) | the chemicals luciferin and luciferase | ||
| b) | an electrical charge | ||||||
| c) | irredescent scales | e) | the chemical phosphorous | ||||
| 6) | Why do they glow? | a) | to frighten predators, the light is shaped like a huge mouth | ||||
| b) | to keep warm at night, heat is given off from the glow | ||||||
| c) | to attract a mate | ||||||
| d) | to light their own path at night | ||||||
| e) | the young can identify different patterns | ||||||
| 8) | Where do they go in the day? | a) | stay in exactly the same place, camouflaged during the day | ||||
| b) | under stones | ||||||
| c) | usually eaten by bats during night | ||||||
| d) | under ground | ||||||
| e) | could be upto a mile away | ||||||
| 9) | Do they hibernate? | a) | YES | b) | NO | ||
| 10) | Which of these will they sting, bite or harm? | a) | nothing, totally harmless | ||||
| b) | snails | d) | young children | ||||
| c) | small mammals/birds | e) | all people | ||||
| 11) | Have you ever seen one? | a) | YES | b) | NO | ||
| 12) | If YES, when did you last see one? | a) | 2002 | ||||
| b) | About …….. years ago | Please put place names, and road names if possible, and most recent year (approx!) where you remember seeing them overleaf. Thank you! | |||||
| 13) | If YES, when did you see the most at any one time? | ………… seen, about…….…years ago | |||||
| 14) | Please ring your age bracket | under 9 9-15 16-40 41-65 Over 65 | |||||
| 15) | Do you think that your overall knowledge of British wildlife is: | a) | high | d) | below average | ||
| b) | above average | e) | low | ||||
| c) | average | ||||||
| 16) | Numbers of glow worms are declining. Do you think it is important to try and save them from extinction? | a) | YES | ||||
| b) | NO | ||||||