Arizona Residents
 

its the season for scorpions. There will be a high level of the little bitches this year. I was stung a while back a bark scorpion(the most dangerous in the state) it felt like a bunch of needles i was sure i was dead. :1orglaugh

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I heard that on the news today that there will be tons of them. I am glad we don't have any in our backyard or at least I don't see them. I did see some a few years ago when I was up in the palm tree doing my annual trimming and skinning, but they were dead...thank gawd.

My high school Mascot, Scorpions

i think ill spray this year :helpme

I got tagged on the toe by a bark scorpion some years back... that was not fun. My entire leg felt like it was receiving periodic electric shocks for about 12 hours after being stung.

My sister is a toxicologist who specializes in the toxins dealt out by venomous creatures, so at least I have an expert handy that I can make a free call to when that sort of thing happens.

I found a dead one in my garage 6 months ago...

Unfortunately most of those are the same color as my floors soooooo I'm gonna be wearing shoes all the time as usual.

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They climb walls too ;)

Be sure your shoes are in a safe place and not on the floor....:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Thanks asshole now you have me staring at the floors.

They glow in UV light... I might as well put the blacklights back in my room.

Oh I know. My mom got stung by one when we lived in North Scottsdale on the side of a mountain.... she was not thrilled. I found them there all the time, only one was in my room underneath the jumbled mess under my computer desk. Apparently they like the electricity or something.

I have been in the habit of shaking out my shoes for the last 10 years. :) Can never be too careful.

i hate scorpions

Watch where you place your hands and feet.

Got tagged by one about 6 weeks ago! It hurt for at least a week! :( Sprayed interior and exterior REAL good!! Them things are nasty!!!

Got my UV Flashlight handy as well!!!

When I lived in Texas, I had this little... cottage for a house, middle of the woods right on the lake. Had this thing they called a heater, it was brown. Walking by it one day I look down and I see a rather fat scorpion, which was trip enough... but then I noticed she wasn't fat, those were baby scorpions on her back. Another time, just before leaving for a concert I feel my pants leg move, I look down and a scorpion was crawling up my jeans. Off came the hat, swatted it off and stomped on it while screaming like a little girl.

In AZ I haven't seen a scorpion yet, but them damn black widows are all over. I can easily kill 2-3 every couple of months during the warmer months, even with a bug man. Had this one last year that was on both sides of the wall from the front to back yard, huge web/nest spanning across bushes and and another wall. She caught a small mouse in her web... didn't end well for the mouse. I kill them with bleach, a small amount melts them.

get a black light :winkwink:

We back up to a mountain and have them all over our backyard. I've done my research on the bark scorpion.

The bigger the better. It's the small ones that can hurt you because they just release all their poison into you. The bigger ones feel they can just release a little and go.

If you find one (alive or dead) you can count on 10 more you dont see.

There metabolism is so slow spraying wont do much, unless you get them in a confined space where they have to cross over the poison multiple times.

Scorpion hunts can be a fun past time. Wait until dark, grab a beer and a blacklight and go. They glow a neon yellow and easily spottable.

I put them in my bedroom just to fuck with my ex when we lived together. She was a stripper and worked with me and after a solid week of complaining she hates the blacklights at the club I went to walgreens and bought a few of them and swapped them out while she was asleep.

She was NOT thrilled when she turned the lights on.

Then they just stayed because it was enough light we could see in the dark but not so much it'd wake the other up if we were still sleeping. I swapped them back to regular lights a bit ago but still have the bulbs.

there's a gel or something exterminators put down that when the scorpion walks over it, slices it's belly up and puts the poison in through there, then dries it out and kills it pretty quickly.

Found at least 10-12 in my house dead and alive in the past couple of years.

I have my house sprayed inside and out every 2 months but they still make it in

When I lived in AZ, one of the homes I lived in was infested with the little bastards. My husband comes out to me one day while I am trying to cool off in the pool and he is holding a cup. Inside that cup is a momma covered in babies that he had found while cleaning the garage. We were always finding scorpions on the walls and the carpet (which was the same color as them). I have absolutely no idea how neither of us got stung that year. We would even find the ones that fell into the hottub and drowned. ::shiver::

Last place we lived didn't have the scorpions but, did have black widows that loved our patio set.

hopefully the Arizona governor will step on one of them while barefooted

im guessing because shes enforcing the law. :disgust somebody has to make ilegals take the moral high ground.

My place is infested with Scorpions. Every year I see at least 5-10 outside as well as a few inside. Last year I caught my 2 year old son just as he was picking one up, thank god it was dying or something as it was not moving fast and did not sting him. The pest guy said that was like 1 in a million odds.

i'd take a grizzly over a scorpion anyday haha

i think ill take the bug :1orglaugh it cant eat me! :uhoh

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I hope that biotch does...

i really dont get it. why people support criminals and think its right. you better hope you dont become a victim of identity theft by an illegal. i bet then you would see the light.

They're ever so present in Cancun..I was working the other night and I caught one crawling near the kitchen and sprayed his ass. Not sure what kind but it was a super tiny one, and I'm under the impression those are the really bad ones...DIE SCORPIONS DIE!!!

they are the worst! the one that stung me was the size of a penny i was screaming like a girl! :1orglaugh caught it and took it to the hospital.

Lets only pray that will happen :winkwink:

She will have a different tune then :2 cents:

Not sure what barefooted is, but I hope she plans on exterminating them like the state is exterminating the illegals, Mexican, Canadian, Euro trash, all illegals.

At least I think you were attempting to make a crack about that... if not, sorry. At least we are shipping the illegals to PA...then the rat bastard scorpions can go there also.

yes and lawyer fees to get the stuff removed its a bitch happened to a friend of mine.

3 time stungee here :(

~Ray

May you find several in your shoes or in your bed too.

One time at the Lightspeed Studio in Phoenix some movers were moving in a huge couch and as they walked through the front door one of the guys dropped the couch, screaming. He had no idea what happened. Then we saw a scorpion climb out from under the couch. Turns out he had been bit.

Ten minutes later his fingers were blown up like a balloon!

My friends place out there had them everywhere! You would be watching tv and they be crawling up the wall! It was so creepy.

Cy-Kick CS around exterior of house, diatomaceous earth around block wall, full yard spray to kill ants and crickets, and 2 cats inside. Dont see to many anymore

amazing pic

Went to Amazonia recently and i learnt that small claw scorpions are the most poisonous.
Actually the smaller claws a scorpion has the more poisonous it is.

:1orglaugh ok

Actually this seems to be correct. I never knew this, so I decided to do some searching.

Here is what I found:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Facts-about-...s-and-Pictures


I pulled this section from the article:

Most dangerously venomous scorpions have long and slender pedipalps (?claws?) in comparison to those of less venomous species which tend to have more robust pedipalps. This has led to the simple, although not universal, rule that scorpions with thin claws and thick tails tend to be more venomous than those with stout pedipalps and thinner tails. The toxicity of the venom is therefore associated with the ability of the scorpion to subdue prey with the pedipalps. In southern Africa, thick clawed scorpions belonging to the families Scorpionidae, Bothriuridae and Ischnuridae, and are generally assumed to be harmless. However, 0pistophtalmus glabrifrons is an exception to the rule. Opistophthalmus species are burrowing scorpions, and probably never leave their burrows except when coming out to mate. This probably accounts for the timing and relative rarity of their stings.


I should go down to my buddies stables to turn over some cow pies and find some scorpions, you won't believe how many small and huge scorpions are in or around the manure piles.

sounds like it might be a good idea to spray this year...

ok :1orglaugh i dont want any in my home. small to big i dont care. http://www.gofuckyourself.com/images/icons/tongue2.gif

To tell you the truth, I wouldn't want any of them in my home, big or small :winkwink:

i'm afraid of escorpions, but this pic is so pretty!