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Volunteers spotted a dozen of the glowing female insects this summer after a zero-budget project to breed them. Ecologist Pete Cooper and a team of locals raised hundreds of larvae inside a Bristol garden shed before moving them to the Nosterfield site. The group plans to set another 1,900 young beetles free later this year to help the colony grow.
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