Never in my life.....2 in 2 hours

[DirtyDan]

Hey all

Well I'm moving stuff in the garage, something's moving. Ok.... Second look SCORPION!!!!!!

Ok smush ..... Later this eve on the porch.  Second one !

Never saw one in the wild before, now its on the watch list

Life in the desert

Dan

[Gavin_Sons]

Better get you a black light and go hunting for them.

[Rams]

Hey all

Well I'm moving stuff in the garage, something's moving. Ok.... Second look SCORPION!!!!!!

Ok smush ..... Later this eve on the porch.  Second one !

Never saw one in the wild before, now its on the watch list

Life in the desert

Dan

I'm not sure whether I should say, Scorpion Lives Matter or, you're wasting good protein, Tastes Like Chicken when fried.    I'll let you make the call.................... 

[Alpha Dog]

I use to see these all the time while in Palm Springs.  I think they were called Pale Wind Scorpions.  Not very poisonous.   Folks told me the poison ones were in Arizona.  Guess they could not cross the Colorado.  Watch out.

[hubcapsc]

I live in the woods in the South. They're everywhere. They occasionally
fall off the ceiling and into the bed... but ours are only like a bee sting
or something...

-Mike

[RP#62]

The bad ones in Arizona are the bark scorpions.  With scorpions, in general, the smaller they are, the worse the sting.

-RP

[The emperor has no clothes]

Hey all

Well I'm moving stuff in the garage, something's moving. Ok.... Second look SCORPION!!!!!!

Ok smush ..... Later this eve on the porch.  Second one !

Never saw one in the wild before, now its on the watch list

Life in the desert

Dan

Be careful putting on your boots.

[Romeo]

I am once again reminded of another reason I live in Michigan. I'm deathly esskeared of them things.

[The emperor has no clothes]

I use to see these all the time while in Palm Springs.  I think they were called Pale Wind Scorpions.  Not very poisonous.   Folks told me the poison ones were in Arizona.  Guess they could not cross the Colorado.  Watch out.

Sun Spiders ?

[Valkorado]

I use to see these all the time while in Palm Springs.  I think they were called Pale Wind Scorpions.  Not very poisonous.   Folks told me the poison ones were in Arizona.  Guess they could not cross the Colorado.  Watch out.

Sun Spiders ?

I remember seeing those when I was a kid visiting the grandparents.  They are scary ugly!

[The emperor has no clothes]

I use to see these all the time while in Palm Springs.  I think they were called Pale Wind Scorpions.  Not very poisonous.   Folks told me the poison ones were in Arizona.  Guess they could not cross the Colorado.  Watch out.

Sun Spiders ?

I remember seeing those when I was a kid visiting the grandparents.  They are scary ugly!

Yes they are. I remember soon after moving here I saw one and instead of it running away it ran at me. I thought WTF kind of place did I move to ? Now I just view them as a nuisance cleaning them and centipedes out of the pool.

[Psychotic Bovine]

I have heard they glow under UV light.  So, people who hunt them for their venom (to make anti-venom, I imagine) go out at night and use UV flashlights.

One of our drivers was stung by a scorpion while unloading a trailer.  He was in Kansas City.  The trailer was in Texas a couple of weeks before and then in Canada.  That scorpion lied in wait for an awful long time.  The driver called me from the road and said his hand had swollen up like a football, but he still wanted to finish his day.  Needless to say I told him to get back to the yard asap and have the terminal manager take him to the ER.

[Crackerborn]

I grew up with the black and red varieties in southern FL. In elementary school the teachers would have the students do a desk check before sitting and opening the desk top. As a helper on construction sites while in high school, one of my jobs was to load plywood on roofs from the ground where it had been dropped with all the supplies at the start of the project. The last piece on the ground always had a few suprises under it, scorpians being one of the least problematic. Pigmy Rattlesnakes were much more entertaining.   

[Willow]

I remember seeing those when I was a kid visiting the grandparents.  They are scary ugly!

I knew nothing of sun spiders (wind scorpions). It tickled my curiosity so I looked them up. I learned a good deal that previously had not known, some of which I really didn't want to know.

They are very ugly.

I don't like scorpions.  I don't like spiders.  As a younger, kinder man I used to take them outside unharmed so they could hunt away from my living quarters.  Today I am less considerate.

[John Schmidt]

Back in the late 60's I was a field tech for an office equipment company. The operations going on at the Cape for moonshots at the time was a big time thing and the various contractors had a lot of our microfiche/microfilm equipment. I recall one day I was cleaning out the inside of a machine and felt something brush the back of my hand. I slowly removed my hand and there was very healthy looking scorpion sitting on my large face watch. The sec'y. sitting nearby grabbed a metal ruler and by pulling one end back was able to snap it across the room, then dispatched it with her shoe. She told me about one day sitting down first thing in the morning and getting hit in the butt by one. Said her cheek swelled up pretty good for a few days, adding "you should have seen it." Since she was a rather attractive young gal, my thoughts were: "Yes dear, and I most likely would have enjoyed it at your expense."  Judging by the comments of her fellow male employees, apparently a few did. 

[Serk]

I'm just gonna leave this here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/venomous-spider-bite-sends-man-sitting-on-the-toilet-to-hospital/

[Pappy!]

I grew up in the Keys.....they were everywhere. Black widows as well. Always barefoot and occasionally paid the price for that with scorpions.
Now, in Central Florida, I see more black widows and brown widows.  I killed 8 in one week around and under our boat trailers and in boats I was working on . That's the record so far anyway. The females are pretty aggressive as well.

[desertrefugee]

The photos above are "sun spiders" or "wind scorpions".  Not actually scorpions, but still arachnids.  (They're all related).   Living in the desert, they're everywhere - and not poisonous.  They are VERY cool, though.  When my sons were young, we'd catch them and put them into a large terrarium and feed them  live crickets.    Poor crickets.  You could actually hear the victim being dismembered and consumed.

The bark scorpion (small, pale beige), while poisonous, is rarely fatal.  Usually, just "some pain" and, perhaps, numbness.

Now let me tell you, a person will not soon forget his/her first encounter with a Giant Hairy/Arizona Desert Hairy scorpion.  Big, dark brown/black and HAIRY.  Truly an intimidating fellow.  Ironically, his venom is pretty anemic.  Not as bad as most bee stings.

[The emperor has no clothes]

The photos above are "sun spiders" or "wind scorpions".  Not actually scorpions, but still arachnids.  (They're all related).   Living in the desert, they're everywhere - and not poisonous.  They are VERY cool, though.  When my sons were young, we'd catch them and put them into a large terrarium and feed them  live crickets.    Poor crickets.  You could actually hear the victim being dismembered and consumed.

The bark scorpion (small, pale beige), while poisonous, is rarely fatal.  Usually, just "some pain" and, perhaps, numbness.

Now let me tell you, a person will not soon forget his/her first encounter with a Giant Hairy/Arizona Desert Hairy scorpion.  Big, dark brown/black and HAIRY.  Truly an intimidating fellow.  Ironically, his venom is pretty anemic.  Not as bad as most bee stings.

I've not seen the Giant Hairy. Just bunches of Sun Spiders and a few of the bark scorpions.

[hukmut]

ALWAYS bang your shoes on the floor ( something like shaking out sand) hard!!!!

ANYTHING that has crawled inside should be shaken out and subsequently smashed flat.

[RP#62]

I use to see these all the time while in Palm Springs.  I think they were called Pale Wind Scorpions.  Not very poisonous.   Folks told me the poison ones were in Arizona.  Guess they could not cross the Colorado.  Watch out.

Sun Spiders ?

I remember seeing those when I was a kid visiting the grandparents.  They are scary ugly!

Yes they are. I remember soon after moving here I saw one and instead of it running away it ran at me. I thought WTF kind of place did I move to ? Now I just view them as a nuisance cleaning them and centipedes out of the pool.

Be careful fishing them out of the pool.  They can hold their breath for a couple of weeks.

One you don't hear much about is the maricopa harvester ant.  They're big ants, about 1/2 to 3/4 long and fortunately not very aggressive.  If you step on one though, they will latch on with their mandibles and then start stinging.  They are the most venomous insect in the world.  Not as painful as scorpions, but bad.  I got stung between the toes.  It felt like somebody put my foot in a vise and then set it on fire.  Lasts about 4 hours.

-RP

[cookiedough]

shoot,  and here I am afraid of garter snakes had one in my house over 2 feet long somehow got into my basement had one heck of a time getting rid of it.  Wife wanted to move to a hotel until I got rid of it by  using gloves picking it up by the tail into a 32 gallon trash container and safely moving him 1 mile away.

I think it got behind the lower portion of vinyl siding a gap between the concrete foundation and wooden stud guessing that is how mice sometimes get in as well???  I'm a wuss on both mice and snakes, let along spiders which don't bother me as much.  Never seen a wild scorpion in WI.