Mammals glow
Warning: There is a photo of a dead mammal to follow.
I had read that our opossums fluorescence with UV light. In fact, I have been waiting for just such an opportunity to shine my UV torch on one, alive or dead. So alive was preferable, but I don’t often see live ones at night, let alone in the night. I have even gone back to a dead one on the road after dark. But darn, someone had always dragged it away. Yum for that someone. LOL
Of course, in our path we saw the usual glow-in-the dark critters, like the millipedes, grasshoppers and the scorpion. Fun stuff the UV!
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Keep looking!
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
Oooops, I should have stated some mammals glow.
They sure do glow. Or at least the possum does. And such pretty colors.
What a great find – so colorful. Sad for the opossum tho.