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Originally Posted by tweezers74
Lee, you are nuts. Wanna come to my house and do a scorpion sweep? Twice a month? I will send you home with home cooked Asian meals. Does your family like Asian food?  |
We like ALL food! I'd be happy to do a sweep, but we should wait a bit until it's a little warmer at night.
Funny thing about scorpion hunts at my house... we have a catch and release policy. My daughter is all about nature. Once she got to be about 4 years old she didn't like the fact that we squashed the scorpions with a rubber mallet. So now we catch them by the tail with a pair of forceps and drop them off in the desert later. There's a pretty good sized vacant lot next to the post office near us where we deposit most of them. I've always wanted to go there at night with the black light. We've released quite a few scorpions there over the years.
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Originally Posted by R K T
The ones to be very afraid of are the Bark Scorpions. They are smaller and are almost translucent or see-through.
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Bark scorpions are just about all we see. Probably 95% . I find striped tailed scorpions occasionally. They're way more aggressive than the bark scorpions, but relatively harmless. Every few years we get a Giant Desert Hairy. They can be pretty big (5" or so).