
Androctonus crassicauda
last week was "international moth week", so I joined some people in an outing - with "light trap" for moths.
but the youngest one of the participants (the organizer's son who was only 12 years old) was not interested in moths, so he went out and about in the darkness, and returned with this scorpion in a tube. this is one of the most dangerous scorpions.
This scorpion is black to the naked eye, but when lighted in ultra-violet light, it gets a fluorescentic blue color.

"Androctonus crassicauda", the Arabian fat-tailed scorpion, is a species of dangerous scorpion usually found in North Africa and the Middle East.
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108Ultra Violet Light Posted 2 years ago, modified 2 years ago
but it stood there long enough for everyone to take its picture... Posted 2 years ago