Pokie yellow bands responsive to UV light.

[arachbiodude]

P. regalis. Was looking at my scorpion and saw this.

 

[arachbiodude]

Maybe can eat bees and other insects using flower nectar guides.

 

[Arachnoclown]

They aren't trying to be a flower, you only see the bands when threatened. They dont pose like that to get insects. Those yellow bands however are used for identification of the species. Ultimately I believe it's natures way of warning or yielding with caution that your day is about to get extremely worse.

 

[arachbiodude]

They aren't trying to be a flower, you only see the bands when threatened. They dont pose like that to get insects. Those yellow bands however are used for identification of the species. Ultimately I believe it's natures way of warning or yielding with caution that your day is about to get extremely worse.

Ha, yes, you will have a bad day.

 

[Vermis]

you only see the bands when threatened

Birds see UV wavelengths, don't they...?

 

[Arachnoclown]

Birds see UV wavelengths, don't they...?

And birds don't emit UV wavelengths to hunt for prey.

 

[Vermis]

And birds don't emit UV wavelengths to hunt for prey.

But they may just be extra startled by the flash of a sudden threat display involving bright yellow and UV.

Granted, it might be a bit far-fetched given a pokie's generally preferred foraging period of pitch dark, and it could be the same 'loldunno' answer to 'why do scorpions fluoresce under UV light?' but I'm just spitballin' here.

 

[Arachnoclown]