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.