What's the temperature where you are???

[Brooks_]

1:15 PM
103F
4% humidity
sunny

Sink scorpion.

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Good gawd, how many types of scorpions do you have?

 

[kikiruru]

411 pm Thursday

Stay safe everyone

 

[sourland]

1:15 PM
103F
4% humidity
sunny

Sink scorpion.

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On our one trip to Arizona we had a bathtub scorpion. Pretty neat to me, but it freaked the group we were with.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Good gawd, how many types of scorpions do you have?

THIRTY.

The one in the photo is a bark scorpion, the smallest and most dangerous. They sting defensively three times in rapid succession: zzt!zzt!zzt!

The pain is incredible and can cause permanent, very painful nerve damage. I know someone who was stung when she picked up an outside water bowl for her dog to refill it. A bark scorpion fell off the bowl onto her foot and stung her.

She said the pain went all the way up her leg into her back. Ten years later she still had pain. She had had five kids and said the pain from that sting was worse than childbirth.

It can also kill you. The venom causes muscle spasms, angioedema, abdominal cramping, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, blacking out, shortness of breath, urticaria, wheezing, and anaphylactic shock.

Scorpions get inside the house through cracks in masonry, vents, drains, or hitch a ride on pets, Amazon packages, your shoes, etc.

They start moving around when the temp goes above 70F and they are very active during the Hell Months.

It is amazing the places they get into. I once found a dead one inside a Platypus water bladder that I had stored in a closet with my hiking gear.

We have to check everything. Always makes me think of this Far Side cartoon:

 

[Brooks_]

THIRTY.

The one in the photo is a bark scorpion, the smallest and most dangerous. They sting defensively three times in rapid succession: zzt!zzt!zzt!

The pain is incredible and can cause permanent, very painful nerve damage. I know someone who was stung when she picked up an outside water bowl for her dog to refill it. A bark scorpion fell off the bowl onto her foot and stung her.

She said the pain went all the way up her leg into her back. Ten years later she still had pain. She had had five kids and said the pain from that sting was worse than childbirth.

It can also kill you. The venom causes muscle spasms, angioedema, abdominal cramping, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, blacking out, shortness of breath, urticaria, wheezing, and anaphylactic shock.

Scorpions get inside the house through cracks in masonry, vents, drains, or hitch a ride on pets, Amazon packages, your shoes, etc.

They start moving around when the temp goes above 70F and they are very active during the Hell Months.

It is amazing the places they get into. I once found a dead one inside a Platypus water bladder that I had stored in a closet with my hiking gear.

We have to check everything. Always makes me think of this Far Side cartoon:

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I will laugh because The Far Side. Otherwise I am screaming in terror like a little girl.

 

[janiedoe]

1:15 PM
103F
4% humidity
sunny

Sink scorpion.

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Looks just like my bathtub, shower, and toliet scorpions!

 

[Nym]

Thursday 13 June 2024
11:14hrs
Tornado watches are out already.

Currently 23c (77F)humidex makes it feel like 31C (88F)
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Eeek! I had no idea tornadoes were a thing in Canada. Have you experienced many? Stay safe! I hope that system loses traction.

 

[Brooks_]

Looks just like my bathtub, shower, and toliet scorpions!

 

[janiedoe]

THIRTY.

The one in the photo is a bark scorpion, the smallest and most dangerous. They sting defensively three times in rapid succession: zzt!zzt!zzt!

The pain is incredible and can cause permanent, very painful nerve damage. I know someone who was stung when she picked up an outside water bowl for her dog to refill it. A bark scorpion fell off the bowl onto her foot and stung her.

She said the pain went all the way up her leg into her back. Ten years later she still had pain. She had had five kids and said the pain from that sting was worse than childbirth.

It can also kill you. The venom causes muscle spasms, angioedema, abdominal cramping, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, blacking out, shortness of breath, urticaria, wheezing, and anaphylactic shock.

Scorpions get inside the house through cracks in masonry, vents, drains, or hitch a ride on pets, Amazon packages, your shoes, etc.

They start moving around when the temp goes above 70F and they are very active during the Hell Months.

It is amazing the places they get into. I once found a dead one inside a Platypus water bladder that I had stored in a closet with my hiking gear.

We have to check everything. Always makes me think of this Far Side cartoon:

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I don't know if we have a different bark scorpion, but I've been stung. It wasn't pleasant. I couldn't wear a shoe for at least a week. It required a doctor's visit, but I didn't kick the bucket.
We do have two bark varieties, a striped bark and a yellow bark, so maybe there are more. We have another kind that I can't remember the name of at the moment.
My cat kills a lot of them. I always worry she will get stung, but so far so good.

 

[janiedoe]

It's just God's way of reminding me to turn on the light before I go.