2025-12-27 14:35:17
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Light🕯 is important to the holiday season, so how about a story on bioluminescence? Japanese soldiers during WW2 harvested the ostracod Vargula hilgendorfii "umi-hotaru sea firefly" and dried them. Water was added to a jar for use as glowsticks to discretely read maps. Hakai magazine has a wonderful bioluminescence article, including details on Osamu Sh…























































