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We have a full line of 395 NM black lights that plug in or portable, which work best for seeing scorpions. Further tests showed that other species from the Chaerilidae family also don't fluoresce, no matter their habitat, suggesting their inability to glow isn't an ecological adaptation, Lourenço reports in the current issue of the journal Comptes Rendus Biologies. Scorpions do fluoresce (or glow) under ultraviolet light, such as our BMONSTER-395 or SUPERTAC-395 UV flashlights. Flinders Ranges Scorpion (Urodacus elongatus), under normal light, normal and UV light, and full UV light. Scorpions feel uncomfortable without pressure on two sides of their body. To his surprise, his test subjects didn't prove to be noteworthy, but the species he compared them with-the soil-loving Chaerilus telnovi-apparently doesn't glow under UV light (seen above, right). Is it true that scorpions glow in the dark Answer. Arachnologist Wilson Lourenço of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris initially sought to test the fluorescing capabilities of four recently discovered, cave-dwelling scorpion species (one of which is shown above, left). But just as the arachnids' claw size and venom potency vary from species to species, so does their ability to fluoresce, with some species lacking the ability altogether, new research shows. This enables us to find them in our yards and carpeting. As if their venom-injecting tails and crushing pincers weren't frightening enough, scorpions have long been known to glow blue-green under ultraviolet (UV) light. Scorpions have chemicals in their exoskeletons which glow under Ultraviolet (UV) or Blacklight.