Darth Cruel
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Scorpion problem in my house...
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Do you know what kind of scorpion it is?
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erm...just found and caught another Vitattus that was running for my foot. 
I wonder if it's the same one I found last night in the bathroom..
I wanted to make sure he was well-fed before I put him with my other two incase he hasn't eaten in a while and attacks one of them (which is highly unlikely either way) but I don't have any crickets...so I have him and a grass spider I found crawling around in the same small container. The spider is a bit larger than him, but I doubt it will harm him...just looked over at them and the scorpion has removed and is now chewing on one of the grass spiders' legs.
So far, in the past two weeks, I have found...
1. Three fiddlebacks (brown recluse)
2. Two black widows
3. One two-foot rat snake
4. Three Centruroides Vitattus (striped bark scorpion)
5. Approximately 50 bold jumping spiderlings
And all of these have been inside my house except for the rat snake..which I practically stepped on on the porch when returning home in complete darkness...
Sorry for taking over this thread.
I wonder if it's the same one I found last night in the bathroom..
I wanted to make sure he was well-fed before I put him with my other two incase he hasn't eaten in a while and attacks one of them (which is highly unlikely either way) but I don't have any crickets...so I have him and a grass spider I found crawling around in the same small container. The spider is a bit larger than him, but I doubt it will harm him...just looked over at them and the scorpion has removed and is now chewing on one of the grass spiders' legs.
So far, in the past two weeks, I have found...
1. Three fiddlebacks (brown recluse)
2. Two black widows
3. One two-foot rat snake
4. Three Centruroides Vitattus (striped bark scorpion)
5. Approximately 50 bold jumping spiderlings
And all of these have been inside my house except for the rat snake..which I practically stepped on on the porch when returning home in complete darkness...
Sorry for taking over this thread.
So far, in the past two weeks, I have found...
1. Three fiddlebacks (brown recluse)
2. Two black widows
3. One two-foot rat snake
4. Three Centruroides Vitattus (striped bark scorpion)
5. Approximately 50 bold jumping spiderlings
And all of these have been inside my house except for the rat snake..which I practically stepped on on the porch when returning home in complete darkness...
Jeez. Where do you live, hell?
erm...just found and caught another Vitattus that was running for my foot.
I wonder if it's the same one I found last night in the bathroom..
I wanted to make sure he was well-fed before I put him with my other two incase he hasn't eaten in a while and attacks one of them (which is highly unlikely either way) but I don't have any crickets...so I have him and a grass spider I found crawling around in the same small container. The spider is a bit larger than him, but I doubt it will harm him...just looked over at them and the scorpion has removed and is now chewing on one of the grass spiders' legs.
So far, in the past two weeks, I have found...
1. Three fiddlebacks (brown recluse)
2. Two black widows
3. One two-foot rat snake
4. Three Centruroides Vitattus (striped bark scorpion)
5. Approximately 50 bold jumping spiderlings
And all of these have been inside my house except for the rat snake..which I practically stepped on on the porch when returning home in complete darkness...
Sorry for taking over this thread.
seriously dude
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...woke up this morning and saw the scorpion chewing on somthing, and the spider was gone.
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Still working on it. There are about 43 (more or less) species of Scorpions indigenous to California. I have checked 23 of them and I am not convinced that it is any of them.
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Have you looked up Paruroctonus silvestrii? Looks very similar.
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That one is on the short list. I have three that I want to compare him to when I get to work tomorrow. That one, Paruroctonus arenicola, and Paruroctonus variabilis...so far.
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If that ____ kept coming in my home, I would burn it down and move. 
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I'm guessing it's the Silvestrii, followed by the Variabilis...man, I wish we had a wider variety of scorpions here. In fact, I think the Centruroides Vittatus is the only kind in the state.
I just found a fourth fiddleback about 30 minutes ago. It's got to be the biggest one I've ever seen..and the fastest. I always thought they were relatively slow, guess not.
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I'd buy a shotgun if I had fiddlebacks in my house.
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Fiddlers are the one spider I have concerns about. I keep having to remind myself that the extreme cases of necrosis are allergic reactions and are not common.
But then I always come back to myself with "Are you sure your not allergic?"
But then I always come back to myself with "Are you sure your not allergic?"
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Don't know until you try.
(I mean, DKUYT.)
(I mean, DKUYT.)
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I'm guessing it's the Silvestrii, followed by the Variabilis...man, I wish we had a wider variety of scorpions here. In fact, I think the Centruroides Vittatus is the only kind in the state.
I just found a fourth fiddleback about 30 minutes ago. It's got to be the biggest one I've ever seen..and the fastest. I always thought they were relatively slow, guess not.
OK...I have established with relative confidence that this scorpion is a Paruroctonus sivestrii as you suspected, Lar'ja Thwei. I actually feel that the subtle differences between the animal that I have and the reference pics of the three species that I mentioned earlier are fairly equal in each species, but after looking up the ranges of those scorpions, it seems MOST LIKELY that this would be the silvestrii. The others are known to share the range...but are far less common in the area that this one was found in, so the odds are better than very good that this is the silvestrii.
Thanks for the help, Lar'ja!
Fiddlers are the one spider I have concerns about. I keep having to remind myself that the extreme cases of necrosis are allergic reactions and are not common.
But then I always come back to myself with "Are you sure your not allergic?"
what makes me think is, they bite people in the legs or arms but
imagine if you are allergic and, imagine if they bite your hose or your cheek......
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Here is the thing...it does not matter where they bite you. The venom travels through your body and you never knew what will be affected.
There is a lady near here, in San Bernardino, who was bit on the leg (thigh, I believe)...and she lost both legs, both arms AND her nose.
https://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-23/local/me-38748_1_brown-recluse-spider
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