Two wildlife charities are recruiting volunteers to help spot glow-in-the-dark caterpillars at night using ultraviolet lights.
It is hoped the technique will make surveying butterflies and moths quicker and reveal secrets about their behaviour and evolution.
The surveys are part of a conservation project covering Bernwood Forest, the River Ray and Otmoor Basin near Oxford.
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If I have to shine a special light on them are they really glow in the dark? Typical click bait headline.
Yeah, click bait.
They’re fluorescent, which is still cool, but they don’t hold a charge or emit their own light as “glow in the dark” implies.
