[56k warn] I just killed this beast ... climbing on my wall

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[56k warn] I just killed this beast ... climbing on my wall

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One week after killing one of those in my house, I'd be moving....
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tam...

I heard tales before we moved down here of people finding hundreds of them in their house in a months time. Fortunately that has not been the case for us. In the three years we've lived here I've killed about 10 that have made it into my house.
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scorpions?

if so, when i used to telemarket, this chick once killed one with her credit card when we were on the phone :))
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PS: RIP!
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is it the "poisonous to humans" kind?
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patrikG wrote:is it the "poisonous to humans" kind?
this happens to be a 'bark scorpion' and the worst kind (in this area). I've read of a few cases where they were deadly, but it's very rare. More often than not, when you're stung, you have an episode like this: http://www.dflt.org/awareness/scorpions.htm .... still not pleasant, but at least you live 8O
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Nasty. Not really something you'd want to go through. RIP, bark scorpion.
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Get a black light ($10 @ wallmart) and scan in and around the house at night. Scorpions "glow" in the dark and you'll be able to see if there are some more.
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wtf wrote:Get a black light ($10 @ wallmart) and scan in and around the house at night. Scorpions "glow" in the dark and you'll be able to see if there are some more.
yeah I had heard that and went to the home depot and bought one. My son and I walked around our house at night for two weeks straight expecting to see something the likes of Las Vegas...such was not the case. In fact we didn't see anything that glowed other than a few gum wrappers the construction workers next door had dropped.

I then found one in my house (a scorpion) and thought...ok, this is it, this thing is gonna light up like a 100 watt bulb, so I dropped the lights then walked into the bedroom armed with the blacklight and alas, it gave off a tiny glow, but certainly not what I'd read about. I had to bring the light within 6 inches of the creature for it to light up at all, and what little light it did give off was nothing noteworthy. I was sorely dissapointed...I had paraded around my house for over two weeks for this??? This scorpion was either going to light up like a christmas tree, or see the bottom of my Duffs. It had a choice. To its end, it made the wrong one.

ok, truth be told, it would have seen the bottom of my Duffs anyway, but it would have at least lived a bit longer while I corralled the whole family in for the light show.
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I am so glad I don't live in Arizona. I'd bet you wouldn't find too many of those in Suburban California. :wink:
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Arn't you scared of them crawling into your bed, up your leg, burrow into your ear and eat your brains?
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TAMYDAVGD.

/That amuses my daughter a very great deal.
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Everah wrote:TAMYDAVGD.

/That amuses my daughter a very great deal.
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Oh. Hell. No.

Cold weather ftw.
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