Scorpions for archive
Location: Croatia
June 20, 2011 4:19 pm
Hello WhatsThatBug!
I like your site and I decided to send you some photos of Euscorpius sp for your archive. I’ve found two of those scorpions(male and female)at spring, and I’m keeping them for two months now, separately. They seem to have healthy life. 
Thank you for your time!
Signature: symbol67
Small Wood Scorpion
Dear symbol67,
Thanks so much for sending us your beautiful photos of some beautiful Scorpions. We have learned that Euscorpius is an old world genus that is sometimes called the Small Wood Scorpions. We like this image of mating Small Wood Scorpions from Getty Images.
Small Wood Scorpion
¶ Posted 21 June 2011 § ‡ ° scorpion found in bathroom
Location: camino california, el dorado county
June 19, 2011 9:28 pm
found this little guy under the bathroom rug, i think its the Northwest Forest Scorpion, but i thought i should ask your opinion just to be safe, its only about an inch long and prefers to play dead rather then turn agressive. love the site, keep up the great work!
Signature: adric
California Forest Scorpion
Dear adric,
Thank you so much for sending in your photograph. We did a web search for Northwest Forest Scorpion, and we found a BugGuide page on the California Forest Scorpion, Uroctonus mordax, that looks just like your Scorpion.
¶ Posted 21 June 2011 § ‡ ° Scorpion Eats Some Dinner
Location: El Paso, TX
June 1, 2011 4:14 am
I would like to share some neat pictures with you and the readers. This scorpion was right outside the back door. I went out with the dogs a little later to keep them away, though I expected it to have wandered off by then. So it was quite a site to see it had caught a roach! I have never seen a scorpion with a fresh catch, so in true nerd fashion, I took lots of pictures and some video. It’s gruesome, but interesting! Hope you enjoy!
Signature: Jen
Scorpion eats Cockroach
Hi Jen,
Thanks so much for sending your marvelous photos of a Scorpion feeding on a Cockroach. We try to encourage our readership to allow predatory species like spiders, solifugids and house centipedes to live in and near their homes as a means of keeping noxious species like cockroaches at bay, but we are never sure how effective we are. Your photos are definitely worth thousands of words.
Scorpion eats Cockroach
Is this a spider?
Location: Machakos, Kenya
March 26, 2011 10:27 pm
Hi, I found this guy trying to get under our front door. When I tried to sweep him out he grabbed hold of the bristles of our broom. Is he a spider and do you think he’s poisonous?
Signature: Marc
Tailless Whipscorpion
Hi Marc,
This is a Tailless Whipscorpion. Like Spiders and Scorpions, the Tailless Whipscorpion is an Arachnid, but unlike Spiders and Scorpions which are venomous, the Tailless Whipscorpion lacks venom. It is possible that they might bite if carelessly handled, but the bite does not contain poison. This Tailless Whipscorpion grasped the broom with its modified pedipalps. Like Scorpions, the pedipalps of the Tailless Whipscorpion are modified into grasping appendages, unlike the pedipalps of spiders. Tailless Whipscorpions are shy nocturnal hunters that prey upon Cockroaches and other arthropods that are generally not welcomed in the home.
Tailless Whipscorpion grasps broom
¶ Posted 28 March 2011 § ‡ ° Spider or Insect?
Location: Barbados, (In the Caribbean)
March 12, 2011 5:53 am
I recently found this in my house walking VERY slowly across the floor, I covered it with a transparent container and left it for a while. As soon as the container was removed it sprinted, since i have 12” tiles i can probably say almost a foot a second.
Found another one a couple months later which got crushed under the car tyre.
Signature: Recker
Tailless Whipscorpion
Dear Recker,
Though it looks quite dangerous, this Tailless Whipscorpion is perfectly harmless (though not to Cockroaches) as it lacks venom. Tailless Whipscorpions are shy nocturnal hunters that will keep your home clear of Cockroaches and other unwanted guests. As you observed, they have the ability to scuttle quickly, often moving sideways like a crab. Tailless Whipscorpions are found in many locations worldwide, though they are most common in warm regions. Tailless Whipscorpions are neither Spiders nor insects. They are classified as Arachnids, the same Class that includes Spiders.
¶ Posted 14 March 2011 § ‡ ° Bark Scorpion vs Dog
Location: Las Vegas, NV
December 22, 2010 12:29 pm
I just wanted to let you know that, between a legitimate (confirmed ID done by the local Dept. of Agriculture) bark scorpion infestation and your site, our home has become more & more bug & arachnid friendly each year.
We have bark scorpions in our home & yard, which *are* dangerous – especially to my husband because he has proven allergic to their venom. However, we noticed that once we gave up trying to exterminate them chemically (they’ve proven almost indestructible to everything except blunt force trauma) they stopped investigating the house as much & seemed more content to stay in the back yard. We came to the determination that since we no longer spray, their food sources – crickets & roaches – are abundant outside. Since the scorpions stay outside, our yard is relatively pest-free and our home is completely pest-free. Along with the active hunters, we have two walls full of big, gnarly, oft-mistaken-for-recluses brown house spiders, and occasional batches of tiny, beautiful brown widows (they’re pale with dark brown leg joints & hourglasses) along the base of the house, and we’ve been visited by regular ol’ centipedes *and* house centipedes.
However, my husband has been getting more & more concerned because we have a nosy dog – meaning she investigates *everything* nose first. Just how dangerous would a bark scorpion sting be to her if it hit her in the face? I’m not too worried about the brown widows – they run & hide – but the scorpions are bold and aggressive, especially in summer.
Signature: Jane from Las Vegas
Bark Scorpion
Dear Jane,
We are happy that you have learned to respect and cohabitate with some of the venomous species in your area and also that you have come to the realization that total annihilation of potentially harmful species is not really practical outside of a closed system. Here is what BugGuide has to say about the sting of the Arizona Bark Scorpion: “The sting of one of our scorpions, however, Centruroides sculpturatus(until recently thought to be the same as Centruroides exilicauda), the Arizona Bark Scorpion, can be fatal. Most healthy adults are not at significant risk- only children, with their smaller body size, are in danger (treatment with antivenom has pretty much put a stop to deaths where available, but bark-scorpion stings should still be taken very seriously). The site of the sting does not become discolored.“ Probably your best source for information on the danger to your dog would be a local veterinarian.
¶ Posted 22 December 2010 § ‡ ° weird looking bug
Location: ksa
December 14, 2010 5:31 pm
my brother saw this weird looking bug and took a picture of it , it looks weird and i’ve never seem any thing like it before can u identify if please ?
Signature: Lolzor
Tailless Whipscorpion
Dear Lolzor,
Sometimes a location is critical for proper identification, but we did not need your location to identify this Tailless Whipscorpion. We have never tried to identify Tailless Whipscorpions to the species level, and we have always been content with a much more general Arachnid order Amblypygi. Trying to identify these non-venomous distant relatives of Scorpions is well beyond our capabilities, but the location of the sighting might be an easy way to narrow down the proper species identification for any Amblypygists (we just made up that word) out there. Recently we have been indicating the location of the sighting as a means by which letters may be classified in the future, and to that end, KSA has us a bit confused. Did you sight this Tailless Whipscorpion in Kosher Supervision of America. Was the Amblypygid scuttling around the Kurt Salmon Associates offices? Was it spotted in the locker room after a KERNERSVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION game? At this time of the year, we get numerous letters from Australia and other points south of the equator where summer is approaching. Perhaps you are in Kimberly, South Africa. Maybe, just maybe you are in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Alas, we are just going to have to leave the location blank in your posting unless you are able to confirm where exactly this sighting of a Tailless Whipscorpion occurred.
Aloha Daniel -
KSA may be the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Blessings of the holiday season to you & yours ~
Eliza
Thanks Eliza,
In an attempt to educate ourselves, we were amused at the possibilities a web search provided for the initials, and we decided to have some fun with the response.
¶ Posted 15 December 2010 § ‡ ° spiders
Location: Bukidnon, Philippines
November 22, 2010 7:45 pm
helo Mr. Bugman,
I had this cute creature inside the caves during our summer trip.
Can you name this one?
Tnx
Signature: mae
Tailless Whipscorpion
Dear Mae,
We don’t often get requests to identify Tailless Whipscorpions that include the word “cute” in the description. Your request is quite refreshing. Tailless Whipscorpions are found in many parts of the world that have warm climates. They are harmless as they have no venom. They are predatory, nocturnal hunters.
¶ Posted 23 November 2010 § ‡ ° 
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