baby scorpion

Look at what I found in my bathroom tonight. 09-06-06_0048.jpg  Just a very little guy, but acting very tough. I took another photo by a pen for scale.

09-06-06_0050.jpg I shooed him into an empty yogurt container. I guess I’ll keep him until Bella sees him tomorrow. I’ve never been bit by a scorpion, but apparently it is not deadly, so much as painful – like a bad bee sting.

I had a friend once who picked scorpions up by the tail. His hand would hover over the scorpion (and in a terrarium they seem angrier) and snap forward to pinch the tail between his index finger and thumb. I don’t know if I actually ever saw him do this, or if he just did a really good job of describing the process to me. His name was Chaz. It helped me to be less afraid of scorpions, but I still don’t want to touch them.

Cool tip about scorpions; they glow under a black light – so scorpion hunters overturn rocks and logs at night using a black light flashlight.

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