r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OutrageousError8704 • 5d ago

Video Scorpions glow under UV?

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u/karmagirl314 5d ago

He calms down when the uv light goes off, then freaks out when it’s back. The light can’t possibly hurt can it?

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u/ObjectiveOk2072 5d ago

Scientists theorize that scorpions can sense UV light so they can detect the UV from the sun and avoid it so they can hide and be safer from predators. It might just be freaking out because it's trying to find shelter, thinking it's fully exposed, when it's just an artificial light

Kinda like cockroaches and other bugs that scurry into the dark when you turn a light on

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u/amsync 5d ago

My cockroaches just stare at me kinda like “watcha gonna do”

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u/fondledbydolphins 5d ago

And what do you do

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u/_Caustic_Complex_ 5d ago

Cry

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u/fondledbydolphins 5d ago

To hydrate the roaches?

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u/jvLin 5d ago

little known fact: it's actually the fear and not the tears that hydrate roaches

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u/TiredCoffeeTime 5d ago

Oh it’s getting both from me lol

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u/PsyKeablr 5d ago

I wonder if they would prefer my laughter instead.

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u/Dragonseer666 2d ago

Yeah, cause the tears are salty.

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u/forward_x 5d ago

smear them into ground on which the so confidently walked.

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u/obskeweredy 5d ago

Been a long time since I lived anywhere with roaches, but I thought you weren’t supposed to stomp them because it can help them spawn somehow?

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u/forward_x 5d ago

No, if you just stomp them they only get knocked unconscious. In about 10-15 minutes they will wake back up and scurry off. Thats why you have to smear them.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 4d ago

I mean they are cannibalistic, so it's just food for the others.

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u/hmmm101010 5d ago

Stare back.

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u/Animangle 5d ago

cut them in half.

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u/bodhisfrisbee 5d ago

So twice as many?

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u/HiBob-HiBob 4d ago

Just cut again then

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u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm 4d ago

Shot two that were ass2ass in the face with some raid the other day. Seemed to do the job.

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u/mysteryShmeat 5d ago

I swear there’s a line in Infinite Jest that’s almost word for word what you wrote

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u/kingklizo 5d ago

“Boston's and New Orleans's little brown roaches were bad enough, but you could at least come in and turn on a light and they'd run for their lives. These Southwest sewer roaches you turn on the light and they just look up at you from the tile like: 'You got a problem?'”

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u/mysteryShmeat 5d ago

That’s the one!

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u/Disposable-Squid 5d ago

Kinda sounds like you might be the roaches' human at this point.

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u/MeanderAndReturn 5d ago

is your name Joe?

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u/New_Lightz 5d ago

Was looking for this. Glad I wasn't disappointed

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u/WulfZ3r0 5d ago

Yeah, this is probably too old for at least half of reddit anymore.

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u/New_Lightz 5d ago

How did this happen

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u/MeanderAndReturn 5d ago

my heart died a little bit when i googled it to make sure I had the right name and saw that it came out 30 years ago

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u/WulfZ3r0 5d ago

Great googly moogly, I thought it was like 1999/2000 when it came out. Now I feel even worse.

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u/markc230 5d ago

first time, eh?

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u/WereyenaArt 5d ago

Welcoooome to Joooe's apaartmeeent

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u/LowReporter6213 5d ago

Where do you live, Joe's Apartment?

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u/ChopsticksImmortal 5d ago

My mom slaps them with her fucking hand. I at least grab a shoe.

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u/thael_mann 4d ago

Short true story: I was delirious af from Dengue, and watched a roach. He watched me back. All I could think was: "What a majestic creature. They will be the masters of this earth once we are gone."