So you want to move to Arizona...

[azmouse]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/05/23/20090523scorpion-ON.html#comments

Read the comments. They're great! ;)

[Blue_Tires]

1. KILL IT WITH FIRE

[azmouse]

4. HA! Someone did say they'd burn their house down if they saw a scorpion.

What a wimp! Scorpions are fun! :)

[Blue_Tires]

9. not fun, but a danger to EVERY PEACE LOVING HUMAN BEING

SO KILL THE LETHAL GODLESS STINGING VENOMOUS EVOLUTION INSECT MURDERING ALIEN TERRORIST PREDATOR...SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD (GLOCK GLOCK), BATHE THE BODY IN ACID, BURN THE REMAINS IN FIRE AND BLAST THE ASHES OUT INTO SSSPPPAAAAAACCCEEEEE!

BECAUSE ANYTHING I DON'T UNDERSTAND OR MAKES ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SHOULD BE DESTROYED FORTHWITH:scared: :hide:

[azmouse]

14. I hate to see anything wasted so

I leave the scorpion carcasses outside where the birds can find them and eat them. Waste not, want not!

[HopeHoops]

2. SCORPIONS HATE BABIES!

Quick, somebody notify FOX - they can get a crew to Aruba right way for 24x7 live coverage of "Liberal Baby-Killing Scorpions".

[TZ]

3. Hmm.

My Mayo doctor is transferring to Scottsdale which means starting next year, I get to visit Az once a year..instead of wondering about snow..I can wonder about scorpions! :scared:

[CreekDog]

5. When I moved there they told me "don't sleep on the floor"

:rofl: :yoiks:

[3.14158675309]

10. I lived in Tucson for most of the eighties and one day

I was sitting on the couch about to fold the pile of clean clothes next to me when I saw my two cats very interested in a pair of my underwear. I investigated more closely and discovered a bark scorpion in them. :wow:

You just learn to check your shoes before you put them on (and don't sleep on the floor) :hi:

[TZ]

12. .

So in otherwords...BB should be grateful to your alert kitty cats...:hide:

[azmouse]

13. I found a scorpion on a bath towel... while I was using the towel!

That was probably the closest I've come to being stung.

[azmouse]

6. Call me if you see one.

I'm a fearsome scorpions hunter! I kill about a dozen of them a year.
Strangely though I haven't seen any since January.
I suspect they're plotting a takeover of my house sometime this summer. Sneaky buggers!!

[dana_b]

7. omg!!

well, I guess AZ is off of my list!! I'm a big baby when it comes to poisonous critters. We found a recluse spider in a box a couple of weeks ago and I look under my bed and all around the bedroom every night! I'm afraid to go in the closet. :scared:

[azmouse]

11. I hate spiders!

We have Black Widows here... but luckily we haven't found them IN the house, just outside.

[suninvited]

28. Black widows kill scorpions

I saw one do it one day, it was pretty awesome.

[pokerfan]

30. I love spiders!

[azmouse]

31. Oh dear gawd!

They look like the alien baby from 'Alien'!

[Sequoia]

8. ..........

[azmouse]

15. Blame all those atomic bombs from the '50s!

[CreekDog]

16. yeah but the big scorpions are not that harmful

it's the little ones that have the most lethal sting. :rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

17. OMG. I have a serious case of heebie jeebies right now.

:scared:

I guess I didn't realize it was so common for scorpions to get into houses. I thought of them as outdoor critters only. When I was visiting my grandparents in New Mexico as a kid, I almost stepped on one of those suckers as I was wearing flip flops. Yikes.

I'm never moving to Arizona. As if the scorpions weren't enough, I think I'd shrivel up like a raisin in all that blazing sun. I need my shade canopy and giant, scorpion-free Northwestern trees.

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. Could be worse

Could have one of these guys slither right by you moving at about 60 miles an hour.....




....in the dark, so you barely see the damn thing. He wasn't using the rattle either. Which actually is a good thing, because it means he wasn't in a striking mood. But if I had accidentally stepped on the son of a bitch, he might have changed his mind about that.

[Arugula Latte]

23. Holy Crap!

:wow:

[Sebastian Doyle]

33. The good thing about snakes is

they're at least as afraid of you as you are of them. They'll usually avoid confrontation with something bigger than them unless they feel trapped, and even then, they'll warn you by coiling up and using the rattle. This guy was just looking for dinner.

Actually at the time, my sister was screaming her head off about a mouse or a rat or whatever crawling in the walls of the RV she was sleeping in. She had a serious case of the flu at the time so I really didn't want to expose myself to the virus. That's when I saw the snake zoom right by me, headed right under the RV. I told my sister she wouldn't have to worry about the mouse any more.

She said "Why?"

I replied "Trust me, you don't wanna know"

(I figured that was easier than dealing with the hysterical reaction that would have come from her knowing that a black rattler had just exterminated her rodent tormentor):evilgrin:

[Kali]

37. man, we've already had 3 around the headquarters

brazillions of rabbits and gophers this year - expecting a big snake summer.

they will sure as hell strike without buzzing - we (humans) have been actively selecting for silent rattlesnakes for a couple centuries now. I have noticed the change in my lifetime.

[Kali]

18. pssshhhah

they are scary looking but harvester ants' sting is WAY more painful. I get it by both many times every summer. Posted a week or two ago about getting one on the end of my big toe.

The real bummer about scorps is when they drop off the ceiling into your bed and you roll on them - then as you try to levitate off the bed after the first sting ('cause you know exactly what it is and what is coming) they get you 3 or 4 more times as they run down the length of your body.

It is a very bizarre and interesting sting though. Electric.

[azmouse]

26. I've never seen one on the ceiling.... yet.

The ones I've found inside have for the most part been on the floor although I did find one on a bath towel I was using. THAT was the worst experience ever! :scared:

[Renew Deal]

29. Here you go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb-doADcizc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9T0bD6KlQ

[Kali]

32. mostly the centruroides are the ones that really climb and end up on cielings

and subsequently in beds. They are supposedly the deadly bark scorpions - and all I can say is if these are the worst, the rest must be pretty mild. Don't get me wrong, they hurt and can even make you need to lie down for a few hours but, like I said - those damn big red ants hurt more and for longer.

[azmouse]

35. We have these small black ants that are downright vicious.

I get several bites each summer from them when I'm outside and I end up with an itchy bitemark worse than any mosquito could do.
I have a bite on my foot now from this weekend and it still itches something awful.

[Ptah]

19. Look up!

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. Occasionally you can even hear Scorpions sing in the desert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfHUYotCi0

[quakerboy]

22. I think you mistook me for my father

Me, not in a million years. I have no plans to leave the nicely un-scorpion infested NW rainforest for more than brief visits to other places.

I have met the scorpions and I found them disturbing. Spiders and snakes and etc... I have no great love for them. But scorpions are the only ones that seem to kill just for the fun of killing. None for me thank you.

[DS1]

24. No. Not before or after seeing that image

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

25. I lived in Tempe for most of the 90s

and luckily had only one run-in with a scorpion. I was walking through my apartment and I saw a spot at the foot of a wall. On closer inspection it turned out to be a scorpion sitting there. I was able to trap it in a glass and the forcefully ejected it from the premises. A few days later my roommate walked in the door with a (different) glass in his hand saying "Look what I found" and sure enough there was a very familiar-looking critter in the glass. Apparently after being evicted from my place it had relocated.

Another time I found a big brown spider in our apartment and all I remember is my big 240+ pound former Junior College linebacker roommate standing on top of a chair yelling "Kill it! Kill it!!!" :rofl: (he wasn't home for the scorpion incident)

I don't like arachnids much...

[azmouse]

27. My husband is a big guy and he calls me to kill spiders and scorpions.

What a baby! :)

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

39. There are some scary critters in AZ!

Luckily I hardly ever came across any of them.

I do miss the Mexican Food and Sun Devil Stadium though... :evilgrin:

[Alexander]

34. Moral of the story: Don't ever move here for any reason.

Yes, I have seen scorpions here.

Thankfully I will be leaving soon.

[Kali]

38. now if we could just convince about 70% of the rest of y'all

:evilgrin:


edit to fix apostrophe in fake southern word

[struggle4progress]

36. Not afraid of scorpions, but y'all oughta fill that canyon before somebody falls into it

[azmouse]

40. I had this horrible feeling when I started this thread

that I would be summoning the scorpions and sure enough I found one on the carpet last night.
I must have stepped over it on my way to the bathroom because it was right in the doorway of the bedroom when I returned. I picked it up with these giant tweezers I have and flushed it and went back to bed for a good night's sleep. :)

[suninvited]

41. picked it up with tweezers??

I wont get any closer than a full broom's length from one!

[azmouse]

42. The tweezers are the type used to get pickles from the bottom of a jar.

They're very long, about 10 inches. I don't want to get any closer to it than that myself!

[siligut]

43. How about the story of the scorpion encased in Plexiglas?

The Plexiglas was dropped accidentally onto the concrete, the Plexiglas broke and the scorpion then got up and scurried away.