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chevy_power427
Centruroides
Number of posts: 128
Age: 30
Location: Montreal Canada
Registration date: 2008-11-05
| | Subject: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/7/2009, 9:42 am | |
| I was wondering, what other arachnid or insect reacts to the blacklight?? |
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 7742
Age: 27
Location: PNW
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/7/2009, 10:16 am | |
| None that I'm aware of.
Some fungi will, though. It's pretty cool -- there's a lichen growing in a park next to where I live that fluoresces as brightly as scorpions.
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Venom
Centruroides suffusus
Number of posts: 2834
Age: 2009
Location: Chicago
Registration date: 2008-02-05
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 9:04 am | |
| A lot of animals can see it though. |
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antmac
Centruroides
Number of posts: 176
Age: 23
Location: oxford /england
Registration date: 2009-02-13
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 9:08 am | |
| so can u use black light to check yor scorpions health? |
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scorpion111
Post-whore
Number of posts: 3455
Age: 18
Location: scotland
Registration date: 2008-04-07
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 9:33 am | |
| A scorpion regardless of health will flouresce unger UV. |
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antmac
Centruroides
Number of posts: 176
Age: 23
Location: oxford /england
Registration date: 2009-02-13
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 11:06 am | |
| i mean 2 check 4 early stages mold n stuff like that? |
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 7742
Age: 27
Location: PNW
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 11:31 am | |
| Huh?
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts: 1824
Age: 18
Location: St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date: 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 11:32 am | |
|  no... not if the scorp glows the same as the fungi... |
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antmac
Centruroides
Number of posts: 176
Age: 23
Location: oxford /england
Registration date: 2009-02-13
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 11:38 am | |
| i thort maybe if the scorp was ill it would not be as bright |
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 7742
Age: 27
Location: PNW
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 11:49 am | |
| Scorps only don't glow if they've just molted. Even a dead scorp glows -- I have one that's been dead for 2.5 years and still glows.
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scorpion111
Post-whore
Number of posts: 3455
Age: 18
Location: scotland
Registration date: 2008-04-07
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 11:52 am | |
| I've heard from some folk that if you store a scorpion in liquid after a while the liquid will begin to flouresce too... wonder if it's true. |
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 7742
Age: 27
Location: PNW
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: UV fluorescence (Black light) 2/28/2009, 12:37 pm | |
| Maybe? I know that some methods of preservation destroy (or leech out) the fluorescent chemicals -- the preserved scorps at OSU don't fluoresce.
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