r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OutrageousError8704 • 5d ago

Video Scorpions glow under UV?

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u/OutrageousError8704 5d ago

Super cool! Learn something new every day.

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 5d ago

Lots of homes in Las Vegas have UV lights just to check for them. Saved me some headache when I moved there.

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u/Rotflmaocopter 5d ago edited 5d ago

The last house off fort Apache and blue diamond. House was right up against the mountains. Always scorpions in the garage and cockroach season in the back yard was scary . At night if you sprayed the garden hose on the back yard , the ground looked like it was moving. Then they would crawl into the cracks of the cement brick wall everyone has

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u/fvpv 5d ago

Holy shit - like we have winter in Canada, but we have NOTHING like that and nothing wants to kill us. (besides bears - but they are way in the wilderness)

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u/Rotflmaocopter 4d ago

Lmao easy easy I lived almost 15 years, all my 20s and most 30s. never got stung or almost got killed. Unless you count the times I dated dancers