Beginning in late 2020 news of various creatures demonstrating fluorescence under ultraviolet (UV) light began to inundate the internet. The trend began with what else but platypuses, then progressed ...

If you’re the type of person who looks for scorpions, rather than runs screaming at the thought of them, then you’re in luck. Scorpions are easy to find. Just go into the desert in the middle of the ...

I recently received a question about the use of technology in ecological research, which led to a discussion about blacklights. I wrote a column five years ago about a nighttime adventure in a ...

The horror, the horror: As if scorpions weren't frightening enough, when illuminated by ultraviolet rays from a black light, the armored arachnids glow an unnatural neon blue. UV light that hits these ...

Between their pincers and poisonous stingers, you’d really think that scorpions are already more than scary enough for one species. But that still leaves their unearthly – and unexplained – ability to ...

Scorpions' fluorescence under ultraviolet (UV) light may help them to detect and avoid the light. Because night-time levels of UV light correlate with the Moon phase, this could enable the creatures ...

SCORPIONS may use the mysterious green glow they emit in ultraviolet light as a crude tool for deciding when the night is too bright for them to go out safely. The crux, says Kloock, lies in what the ...

I often read that scorpions glow under a black light. I have never seen an explanation for why this is. Do you know? Two questions here: How do scorpions glow under ultraviolet light, and why do they ...