those crawly ones

[ceagle]

Well it's been years since I saw one of these...
But I caught it creeping up the side of the house practically into the open bedroom window... ;P

Anybody want a scorpion?

*heh* I don't even know how hard they might be to find, perhaps they're in every pet store as food items like crickets n stuff...
I don't go into enough pet stores to know...

But if they're not, any of you nearby with an interest in these lil critters is welcome to 'im...

Comments

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

ack!... can't have ya fainting! *fluff*

Don' worry... this scorpy gonna stay on this side of the Mississippi :>
*wags n hugs*

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Arachnid! *Hides somewhere far from the little beast.*

-=TK, who is arachnophobic

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

yeah,... :> *smiles*
I'm not too fond of critters that exist just to drink blood either... fleas, ticks, spiders,... what gives? eeeesh...
And add skeeters to that list, even tho they're not aracs.... ;P

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Skeeters don't bother me, until they are large enough to be the state bird (Minnesota). Mostly, I think, because they largely ignore me. My blood does not taste anywhere near as good as my dad's, and most other people's still seems preferrable to mine.

Besides, they're fun to swat.

Now the diseases they carry, those bother me!

*Wonders if there's a West Nile vaccine available in Spokane County*

-=TK

*nod*

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Yeah... it really is the disease thang with bloodsuckers (mosquitoes-west nile, malaria, etc,.... fleas-plague, etc.... ticks-lyme, etc...) that leads me to feel they have no positive socially valid use in existence.
I mean, if their existence can weed out millions of people and creatures, sure that's a use, but not a valid social one... *ruffle*

We've lived (sadly though) with many extinct possibly valid creatures (passenger pigeon, dodo, etc) thus I think we'd be plenty okay if the bloodsuckin' non-valid scourges were taken out.. :> In other words, I don't think the food chain will be affected to any degree, and a lot of critters will be a lot less itchy. *hehee*

Re: *nod*

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

What about feeding your mamillian copyers, the bats?! I mean, the huge mass of skeeters feed them on a nightly basis...

-=TK

Re: *nod*

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

;>
My point zacly..
I know there's food chains, yupyup.. but as far as we know, no species went extinct when the passenger pigeon (a harmless critter) unfortunately went extinct, and as far as I know, there is no bat that lives exclusively off of mosquitoes... if those disease spreaders should (fortunately) be eliminated..
*scritches ya* :>

[level-head.livejournal.com]

To them, "crickets n stuff" are food items.

Generally, local scorpions are not offered in pet stores, through the impressive and very large black African Emperor scorpions used to be. There have been some import restriction changes; I don't know what the current status is.

Ah, they are being bred in captivity now.

Most scorpions, like the one you captured, are solitary animals. The Emperor Scorpion Pandinus imperator koch is almost a social creature, and quite fascinating. But I do not keep them anymore since I moved to Earthquake Country. A good thing: On January 17 1994, at 4:31 am, my several hundred pound terrarium crashed to the floor of my office.

Perhaps this page will help you identify what you have:
http://pw1.netcom.com/~wsavary/calscorps.html

Best wishes.

===|==============/ Level Head

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

mmmm.... :9
Thanks for the info!
I'll have to keep trying that website though.. I can't get the images to open quite yet...

Bugs..

[chahala.livejournal.com]

Oh... they are so cute! I saw lots and lots of those nasty little bugs when we were in OZ you know...

Murrr...

Chahala

Re: Bugs..

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Cute AND nasty? :D haha!
Ah... you saw a lot there, eh?
Oz was fun with ya!.... except for the flies and the bugs and the few insane camels.....

Re: Bugs..

[chahala.livejournal.com]

The camels were insane? I haddn't really noticed! I think that I saw them again in the movies you know.

Snugs

Chahala

Re: Bugs..

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Funny you wouldn't remember...
I'd definitely say that the camel which broke my ribs was verging on insane.... Ya know, I had discomfort for close to 3 years after that...

[makovette.livejournal.com]

If you ever want to frighten your self, grab a battery powered black light, don your Redwing steel toed boots and take a midnight stroll around your place...

Scorpions glow in the dark under UV light quite nicely you see... Bet you wear plate armor after that ;-)

Thelittle beasties to be most wary of are the little staw yellow colored wood scorpions. You find them around dead trees most of the time, under logs and loose bark etc... Maybe 2" long at most. The buggers pack a mondo wallop in that tail...

Seems like as scorpions go, the bigger the bug, the less potent the venom, though any hit hurts like hell compared to a bee or wasp.

Take a photo of the critter if it show up again if you can...

CYa!
Mako

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

wow!! Useful and Intriguing!
I shall have to try that portable uv test.... :> *wags*

um.... y y y y yellow...... t t t t two inch long ones....? *ulp*
That's this'n! 8|

Since I got no takers on this fellow, he'll be a main course for some lizard soon, and though I haven't had a chance to take a photo yet, I'll try to get one before it leaves the premises...

Thanks for the tips, you all!

[makovette.livejournal.com]

That'll be a might brave lizard :)

Yea, sounds like you got a wood scorpion there then. Scorps are great de-buggers being predators and all, best if you can flush him into a big box and give him the bum's rushout to somewhere else on the hill where he can munch on other bugs safely.

Be careful poking around the boxes in the garage this summer - where there is one...

CYa!
Mako

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

hmmmmm....
yeah, maybe a trip out to Calico Ghost Town would be a good relocation exercise for 'im...

pic reddy!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Here's the snap of the clawed pincher thingy...



There ya go! :D

Re: pic reddy!

[makovette.livejournal.com]

That's not our boy... Here's a photo of the Nastiness:



Lot's more pics can be seen here.

Still, I'll bet you $ to donuts that bug packs a serious wallop. I hope it enjoys it's new home far, far away from your place.

CYa!
Mako

PS: I almost had the common name right, they are really known as "bark scorpions", not "wood scorpions" as I originally wrote above...

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Far out! ...Thanks for the photo!
I hope he gets his two bits worth...! *shudderfeathers*

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Just be carefull... Rattlers and Scorpions occupy the same area, and are both active about the same time of da-- er, night. And Rattlers do not glow under black light.

-=TK

No glow!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*LOL*
Yep... we have rattlers more often than we find scorps... :D
And still that's maybe one every few years, so it's not too bad... *wags feathers*..

Re: No glow!

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Well, that's reassuring, I think.

Heh... I remember getting lectured while I was in Tucson, AZ, because I was walking from the church to the tour bus in my stocking feet. It was still early evening and incredibly hot, so I wasn't worried. But after the sun sets... no freaking way!

-=TK, who doesn't like any creepy crawlies