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about 1/3rd of my "bugs"

The Nothing

The Nothing

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Scorpions are my biggest love
i have 30 different species totalling around 180 scorpions. With approx 1400 species, I have almost 2%...

I also have a few tarantulas, centipedes and millipedes



Leiurus quinquestriatus - DeathStalker (now deceased - extreme mycosis infection)


Vaejovis crassimanus - unknown common name


Vaejovis carolinianus - Southern Unstriped Scorpion


Isometrus maculatus - Lesser Brown Scorpion/Tanzanian Marbled Scorpion (miss ID'd originally thought to be Lychas obsti)


Isometrus maculatus


Centruroides gracilis - Central American Bark Scorpion


Centruroides gracilis


Centruroides gracilis


Vaejovis confusus - Lesser Striped Scorpion
 

Vaejovis confusus


Vaejovis confusus



Vaejovis confusus


Vaejovis spinigerus - Arizona Striped Scorpion/Greater Striped Scorpion


Vaejovis spinigerus


Centruroides exilicauda - Arizona Bark Scorpion (most venomous scorpion in US)


Pandinus imperator - Emperor Scorpion


Pandinus imperator


Hadrurus arizonensis - Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion (largest scorpion in US)
 

Parabuthus transvaalicus - Transvaal/African Spitting Scorpion


Vaejovis carolinianus


Opistopthalmus glabifrons - Tri-color Burrowing Scorpion


Tityus falconensis - unknown common


Tityus serrulatus - unknown common (one of few parthenogenic scorpions)


Tityus serrulatus


Centruroides vittatus - Southern Bark Scorpion


Centruroides vittatus


Centruroides gracilis
 

Tityus falconensis


Hadogenes paucidens - Olive Keeled Flatrock Scorpion


Babycurus jacksoni - Rusty Thick Tailed Scorpion


Tityus falconensis


Serridigitus gertschi striatus - unknown common


Scolopendra subspinipes - Vietnamese Giant Centipede


Uroctonus mordax mordax - Northwest Forest Scorpion


Uroctonus mordax mordax


Uroctonus mordax mordax
 

Uroctonus mordax mordax


Uroctonus mordax mordax


Uroctonus mordax mordax


Grammastola rosea - Chilean Rose Haired Tarantula


Tityus falconensis


Centruroides margaritatus - Central American Brown Scorpion (yellow color morph)


Centruroides margaritatus


Centruroides margaritatus


Centruroides margaritatus
 

Scolopendra subspinipes de haani - Vietnamese Giant (Mau Chau morph)


Tityus serrulatus


Uroctonus mordax mordax


Uroctonus mordax mordax


Centruroides hentzi - Florida Striped Bark Scorpion


Centruroides hentzi


Centruroides hentzi


Centruroides hentzi


Smeringurus mesaensis - Dune Scorpion
 
Do you get stung often? Whats the worst that can happen when you get stung by a scorpion? Just curious.
 
WOW, quite a collection. I bet you have a room (or 10!) devoted to them. Very nice!!! Its amazing how many species and sub-speices there are! Congrats on the collection!
 
I have been stung two times
First by a juvenile S. gertschi striatus (pictured above) and a 2nd instare (baby) Isometrus maculatus. Neither were worth writing home about. The first was like a pinprick followed by a light localized tingle that lasted 10-15 minutes. The second felt like I put a hot nail through my hand for the first 5 minutes. No effects afterwards.

As for whats the worst thing that could happen: Death. The Tityus serrulatus has a fairly lethal sting, as do the Centruroides exilicauda. Hundreds die each year from T. serrulatus stings if left untreated (the deaths are in their native country of Brazil, where there is an antivenom produced.) No one has died from a C. exilicada sting in 40 years or so, but there are many hospitialized in Arizona each year from stings. The antivenom for those are in very short supply because they are no longer produced. Fortunately, being a healthy adult male, I shouldn't suffer a fatal sting, but I could be sick enough to wish I had.
 
wouldn't hurt at all... scorpions don't bite...

A sting from an emperor would hurt quite a bit, mostly due to their size. Their venom is weak, but there is a good amount of it. The sting from an emperor is said to be very similar to a bee sting. Personally i'm more afraid of being pinched by an emperor than stung. Thier massive chela (claws) are capable of crushing pinky mice skulls and drawing blood in people...
 
The emperors are usually not that likely to sting or pinch right? It seems every pet store around has them.
Your collection is awesome, the scorpions are very cool but those big centipedes give me the heebie jeebies all over.
 
in all honesty the centipedes freak me out too... lightning fast... the big one eats hoppers... they're crazy

The U. mordax (NW Forest Scorpions) I actually caught down in Medford this last summer...

Emperors are very unlikely to sting, but they will pinch... does take some work to get them pissed enough though
 
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one creaked out by centipedes. I can handle most other "bugs" but I watched this thing on discovery channel where some guy almost died because he was bitten (or stung) and didn't know the species that he had was venomous.

Quite the collection though :D Do you handle them quite frequently? Are they like most animals that get used to your presence or do you always have to watch them?
 
i very very rarely handle my scorpions. It just stresses them out... its much like Fay Wray and King Kong if you know what i mean
 
Very extensive collection and awesome photos! I'm not that much into 'bugs' to warrant keeping them.

Although I do have a big spider I found in the kitchen one night that I keep and feed. But other than that, no desire to keep potentially deadly or hurtful things. If I can't take it out and play with it, don't want it. =D

Nope, you all aren't the only ones who get heebie-jeebied. Centipedes have too many legs and move way too quickly for me to like them.

Although I did find this one earlier in the year while I was planting flowers. She had dug a burrow with a nice sized chamber and was curled around her future offspring.

I managed to snap a picture before placing her into an old stump under some leaf litter.

Click!

Sorry for trampling on your post. But thought it might interest you. No idea what species it is, but creepy none the less. Found in SW Indiana.
 
The Nothing said:
The U. mordax (NW Forest Scorpions) I actually caught down in Medford this last summer..
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Where's the good spots in Medford? I'm not necessarily looking for scorpions, just love to go hiking. The table rocks are one of my favorites - when it's not 100 degrees or raining, that is! (I'm a recent transplant & SF Bay Area escapee so I'm still kind of getting to know this place)
It's kind of funny in my line of work (landscaping) I constantly run into black widow spiders because they like to live in the irrigation valve boxes, but even those freak me less than centipedes!
 
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