Scorpion problem in my house...

[JD18_92]

So THIS is how you look!

Yea pretty much! Heres my senior pic from high school, parents carry it with em in their wallets

 

[crows]

Yea pretty much! Heres my senior pic from high school, parents carry it with em in their wallets

that made me laugh so hard I think I woke the neighbors LOL

 

[JD18_92]

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Fat or pregnant?

 

[Darth Cruel]

It looks like they are mating in that picture.

I am guessing pregnant.

But fat is also a possibility along with possibly getting ready to molt.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Okay I'm no expert, but I thought scorpions stopped molting once they reached adulthood?

I should probably know the answer to that by now.


But no, they're not mating. They were running from the flashlight and bumped into each other.
I caught them mating a few days after introducing them to each other, and once again two weeks ago. So idunno

I've had the fat (pregnant) one for almost a year now..there are two males in with her and I've only had them for 3-4 months.

This is a pic of her when I caught her in August/September of last year. She's definitely bigger......

BTW, after finding that baby about a month ago I've found...

One squished baby under bar of soap

One baby on porch under trash bag

Two babies 6 feet away from each other skittering around in the living room

One VERY small baby under my recliner.

They really love eating the fiddlebacks.

 

[crows]

I found a way to defeat the Brown Recluse spiders, works perfectly,

 

[Darth Cruel]

They do stop molting when they reach adulthood. Are yours full adults? If so, I would definitely go with pregnant.


But they fatten up if they can and quit eating before a molt. So pay attention to whether yours stops eating for a long period of time.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Yeah, all of mine are full-grown.

The female always seems to hog the crickets from the two males. But she's never been this large before.

Pregnant seems most likely.

 

[devilof76]

Scorpions live birth?

 

[buzzybean]

 

[Darth Cruel]

I can't see how that is a "problem". Seems to me that would be a Scorpion that everyone would WANT intheir house!

 

[thenammagazine]

Is the grimace and the WTF expression because he just stung himself in the noggin?

 

[Centurion]

Is the grimace and the WTF expression because he just stung himself in the noggin?

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Any time I find a wolf spider running around, instead of killing it I throw it in with the scorpions.

It's amazing how powerful these scorpions are...they will easily take down a wolf spider two times their size without a scratch.

Couldn't get clear photos for some reason, but the black thing is the wolf spider's abdomen... She had already eaten the rest.

Whata fatty

 

[Darth Cruel]

Just got the word that my chilluns caught me a Praying Mantis at the house.


I'ma have a whole damned menagerie of insect goodness pretty soon.

 

[The Ween]

Just got the word that my chilluns caught me a Praying Mantis at the house.


I'ma have a whole damned menagerie of insect goodness pretty soon.

You aren't going to feed that to your scorpion are you?

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

I'm not even sure a small scorpion could kill a praying mantis. They are badasses.

 

[Darth Cruel]

No way...these mantises wouldn't stand a chance against scorpions. They are too small. But Mantises are the one insect that I like more than Scorpions.


He lives.

 

[The Ween]

I'm not even sure a small scorpion could kill a praying mantis. They are badasses.

I've never seen that!!! Wow! That bird must've been sick or something.

It's more common than I ever imagined! They hang out on hummingbird feeders to catch them!

Found this......yuck!

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