I’ve gotten used to them living in Texas, though, if they sting you on the tip of your toe, it can hurt like a butch for a good hour. Feels like stepping on broken glass. But I do enjoy a good cuddle with a scorpion when I’m lonely.
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My father told me that during the war in Italy, before you put your boots on of a morning you upturned them just in case something nasty had crawled inside overnight.
He went on to tell me if/when a scorpion fell out the guys would pour a circle of petrol around it, light it then watch the scorpion sting itself.
How true that is I have no idea though I do have my doubts as he was one for stringing yarns.
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Jay.
He went on to tell me if/when a scorpion fell out the guys would pour a circle of petrol around it, light it then watch the scorpion sting itself.
How true that is I have no idea though I do have my doubts as he was one for stringing yarns.
Regards,
Jay.
Yeah, after living in India I knock out my shoes every morning regardless of where I am.
If you ever really want to creep yourself out, point a black light at a tree in the Sonoran desert after dark.
If you can stomach what you see, scrape the scorpions into a bag. In 1997, the university hospital paid $100 gram for ground up tails to make antivenom from.
If you can stomach what you see, scrape the scorpions into a bag. In 1997, the university hospital paid $100 gram for ground up tails to make antivenom from.
I used to do that when I was a lad. More for the fun and satisfaction the elimination of a deadly threat caused than for the self-stinging part, though. And I used ethanol instead of petrol.
The scorpion doesn't really sting itself: the contortions and the final crumpling into a shrunken wreck from the heat gives the impression that it does, but it really dies from the incineration.
Like snakes and other poisonous creatures, scorpions are immune to their own venom, so if a scorpion were to sting itself it wouldn't die.
Went on a 2 week camping excursion of national parks in the western US as part of a geology class some 45 years ago. Taught me how much I didn't like camping.
Camped around Angel's Camp California and when I awoke in the morning had a scorpion in the sleeping bag. Then went to shower and found a black widow spider in the shower stall.
Camped around Angel's Camp California and when I awoke in the morning had a scorpion in the sleeping bag. Then went to shower and found a black widow spider in the shower stall.
My dad used to tell similar stories; but he was Asia during the war.
Here in Oz you have slightly larger things to worry about other than scorpions when you're camping.
