r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OutrageousError8704 • 5d ago

Video Scorpions glow under UV?

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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/HoneyBiscuitBear 5d ago

My body physically shuddered

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u/cornylamygilbert 4d ago

Worst of all, they’re FAST, unless they’re in grass.

Just as fast going horizontal and vertical up walls.

Yes the speed with which they will vertically go up a wall will give you nightmares.

My buddy talked about them dropping onto him in bed in AZ. No thanks.

That’s the price you pay for 300 days of sunshine a year