I am unbelievably jealous. We had several for several years, and every time one gave birth it was just an excuse for the mom to chow down. I would have loved to have even one survive past three days. Good luck with the survivors. They are the cutest little things.
Oh, and when you get to Texas you'll have scorpions to have fun with all around your wood piles and what not. Their stings hurt like the dickens, and they sting all the time at anything that dares try to mess with them (unlike the sweet emperors), but they're fun and I used to catch them and keep them as pets all the time, and they made much better parents. In a ten gallon full of other wild scorpions the babies were fiercely protected by momma, and even when they left mom many of them grew up safely. I think they're a bit more of a communal species, since you can find them living in clusters together in wood piles. Non natives are always much more freaked out by them than any sane person ought to be . . . for some reason there's this idea that a stinging bug that's more than a foot away from you has the power to use SUPER JUMP DEATH STINGER, which is hilarious, if I'm allowed to be less than sympathetic to those with a fear of awesomely cool bugs. I hope your DH never sees one, though, for his sake, which is quite possible, but for your boys' sakes, I hope they get the opportunity to find one with babies, because it's a ridiculously cute thing to see a wild scorpion with so many babies you wonder how there's any room on her back to carry them all.
Oh, and when you get to Texas you'll have scorpions to have fun with all around your wood piles and what not. Their stings hurt like the dickens, and they sting all the time at anything that dares try to mess with them (unlike the sweet emperors), but they're fun and I used to catch them and keep them as pets all the time, and they made much better parents. In a ten gallon full of other wild scorpions the babies were fiercely protected by momma, and even when they left mom many of them grew up safely. I think they're a bit more of a communal species, since you can find them living in clusters together in wood piles. Non natives are always much more freaked out by them than any sane person ought to be . . . for some reason there's this idea that a stinging bug that's more than a foot away from you has the power to use SUPER JUMP DEATH STINGER, which is hilarious, if I'm allowed to be less than sympathetic to those with a fear of awesomely cool bugs. I hope your DH never sees one, though, for his sake, which is quite possible, but for your boys' sakes, I hope they get the opportunity to find one with babies, because it's a ridiculously cute thing to see a wild scorpion with so many babies you wonder how there's any room on her back to carry them all.
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