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Not a subject i know much about and cant ever remember seeing one -- but on reading up it seems very tricky to establish them or create an environment for them - seems they like alkaline soil areas - chalklands and chalk meadows / woodlands. So its probably agriculture thats caused the decline on top of them requiring very specific breeding areas. Seems they really only eat small snails not larger ones - so whether slug pellets have anything to do with it or not is unclear. Being a bettle i think they like stoney areas and rotting wood -- so im guessing you would need a semi wild area that has both rocks and decaying wood - small snails and low growing meadow grasses etc -- I do this already and would love glow worms -- the map does seem to show they are very widespread but in low numbers - so i guess theres no harm trying to attract them !
Yes that is interesting, you wonder why, if the right conditions are there - they do not just appear. Maybe they need really clean air too or other factors. Infact I think the website says that there is a lot that is still to be found out about them. I saw that the National Trust does walks to see them at the top of Figsbury Ring in Wiltshire and I can see an article in a newspaper saying there are some on Jersey. Maybe also it is hard to know they are there. I read that that female only moves a couple of metres during her whole life so fragmentation of habitat could have had a big effect too