Glowing air-sacs (IMAGE)

University of British Columbia

Glowing air-sacs

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When researchers mounted the air-sacs of the larvae on a microscope that just happened to have ultraviolet light illuminating the microscope’s stage, the air-sacs started glowing blue.

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Evan McKenzie

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