Did Scientists Fake Glowing Cockroaches?

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Articles:
Yuichi Oba, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow,
A supposedly bioluminescent species of cockroach that would not glow: A case of scientific fraud, erroneous observation or bacterial infection?,
Arthropod Structure & Development, Volume 86, 2025
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1467803925000301?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=978f79b52d0a4cac

Vršanský, P., Chorvát, D. Luminescent system of Lucihormetica luckae supported by fluorescence lifetime imaging. Naturwissenschaften 100, 1099–1101 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1100-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-013-1100-z#citeas

Standards of evidence for bioluminescence in cockroaches
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/15165443.pdf

Light-mimicking cockroaches indicate Tertiary origin of recent terrestrial luminescence
DOI 10.1007/s00114-012-0956-7

Are glowing cockroaches real? This video investigates a potentially scandalous paper about the purportedly bioluminescent genus of cockroaches called Lucihormetica.