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 ...

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 ...

There are glow-in-the-dark scorpions living under rocks in Georgia and to prove it, state parks officials sent a ranger out at night to find some, armed with only a stick and an ultraviolet flashlight ...

Why do most scorpions fluoresce under a blacklight? Evolutionarily, we’re not sure. But chemically, Masahiro Miyashita is on case. These photos, lit with a UV lamp, from Miyashita show a live scorpion ...

When Randy Babb handed us flashlights in the middle of the night in the Sonoran Desert we were not surprised. It was summer. The desert sands had cooled down to the mid-90s. We figured we would have ...

The bark scorpion, a straw-colored scorpion with a slender tail, is the most common and the most toxic in the region. • Scorpions are most often found in homes in the foothills of the Catalina, Rincon ...

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 ...