The scary-looking fish is usually found in water depths of 1,500 meters, where little to no sunlight reaches and where it uses its bioluminescent light to attract its prey.

However, strikingly, this black devil fish was spotted "just 2 km from the coast of Tenerife and during one of our pelagic shark research campaigns," Boguna wrote in his Instagram post.

Spotted lanternfly eggs hatch in the spring and early summer from April through October. Early instar nymphs are black with white spots; fourth instar nymphs are red with black and white spots.

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