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

[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