Glowing Scorpions

Turns out not everybody knows scorpions glow! I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so I have to talk about it.

There is a chemical in the Chitin of the scorpion which allows them to glow when put under a UV light. The baby scorpions don't glow, because their chitin hasn't developed enough. Nobody is particularly sure why scorpions glow. One theory is to attract food, but there are pleanty of things that flouresce which are not predators. And also, scorpions will continue to glow after death.