i wonder?

[dan hewitt]

seeing as they are related, have any spiders evolved to glow like scorps?

[Phil Rea]

This reference should help you Dan.

The full text of the article is freely available from the same page

[dan hewitt]

well i never knew that before.
thanks for the link
dan

[Colin D Wilson]

Some have to an extent, species of jumping spider have fluorescing areas ( pedipalps, femor undersides, ventral areas etc) that they use in their mating rituals, it is usually the fine hairs that fluoresce and not the exoskeleton.

there isn't, to my knowledge, a spider that has an all over exoskeletal irredescence similar to a scorpion.

[dan hewitt]

could just imagine a t room full of glow in the dark spiders!!!

[Colin D Wilson]

It would be quite a sight eh?

Some recent research has further fortified the fact that over exposure to artificial ultra violet lighting (of all wavelengths) can be harmful to scorpions ( including feeding habits, moulting, mating habits) so checking with a low intensity UV light to find them is still ok, but having hours of fluorescing animals walking around a tank is more of a no no than originally thought.

[Larry Shone]

Well, I wouldnt say theyre related as such, rather like we're related to gorillas. They look similar but have totally different habits.