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Pollinator Science · Doc Class — Registry Section

Light-Bearing Pollinators of the Index

Some of the Conservancy's pollinators do their work after dusk, and a handful of them glow while they do it. This section gathers every record in the Universal Pollinator Index flagged bioluminescent — from the harmless Common Glow-Worm and Big Dipper Firefly, whose cold light is a courtship signal, to the fictional glowing cryptid lines the field teams have logged but never fully verified: the Lumen Nectar Moth, the Spectral Orchid Bee, the Aurora Hawk-moth, and the Drowned Lantern Moth.

A wetland at night lit by drifting pollinator glow
6 bioluminescent records
Common Glow-Worm — Lampyris noctiluca
Verified
Common Glow-Worm
Lampyris noctiluca
HCL-1 grassland
HV-SPX-0054 · Least Concern
Big Dipper Firefly — Photinus pyralis
Verified
Big Dipper Firefly
Photinus pyralis
HCL-1 wetland
HV-SPX-0055 · Least Concern
Lumen Nectar Moth — Noctua luminifera
Cryptid
Lumen Nectar Moth
Noctua luminifera
HCL-3 wetland
HV-SPX-0064 · Data Deficient
Spectral Orchid Bee — Euglossa spectralis
Cryptid
Spectral Orchid Bee
Euglossa spectralis
HCL-3 tropical
HV-SPX-0072 · Data Deficient
Aurora Hawk-moth — Sphinx aurorae
Cryptid
Aurora Hawk-moth
Sphinx aurorae
HCL-3 alpine
HV-SPX-0074 · Single Population
Drowned Lantern Moth — Noctua mersa lucens
Cryptid
Drowned Lantern Moth
Noctua mersa lucens
HCL-3 wetland
HV-SPX-0079 · Extinct in Wild
Cross-listed. The glowing lines that carry a Cryptid or Classified reality class are also tracked in Cryptid & Classified, where the containment and sighting doctrine lives. Every record here is part of the full Universal Pollinator Index — this page is only the light-bearing slice of it.