Cover image of American Entomologist

Posted On: Thursday, September 3, 2020

It may not be the cover of Rolling Stone, but a NIGHTSEA fluorescence photo is the cover image of the Spring 2020 issue of American Entomologist. The image shows tobacco hornworms on a tomato plant in Maine. NIGHTSEA founder Charles Mazel is a co-author of an article in that issue – UNLOCKING THE DARK: Harnessing Blue-Light Fluorescence to Illuminate Hidden Hexapods. There are many more fluorescent critter pics in the article.

Fluorescence is seeing increasing use in various areas of Entomology, including field search, taxonomy, marking for behavior studies, and more.