I am sorry that I had to kill it, but this one was trying to get into my garage and started attacking me when I tried to sweep it away. Whipping its tail towards me repeatedly. Will there be more? Can anyone identify the species? Goldfield, Nevada, high desert, elevation 5,647 feet above sea...
Thank you. I think you have identified it, though I'm not an expert, after looking a other photos, that is it. Northern Scorpion.
I still think the one on my front door was a young bark scorpion, as it was smaller and more slender and had little marking, pretty much all one color, and it coukd...
Thank you for your reply. We will never know exactly what stung or bit him as we didn't see it. He was digging through pine needles on the ground, from an Austrian Black Pine tree, a species which has stiff needles with sharp points. So in the process of digging his hands were poked by the...
No, we're not 100% sure that it was a scorpion. It might have been a spider. We have seen a few black widows in the last couple of years. His thumb was swollen up purple, with extreme pain, and he had numbness and partial paralysis in his whole hand for a while, but all that is gone now and the...
Bark scorpions are known to exist in Nevada; they seem to be in Las Vegas, but I'm not sure if they are as far north as Goldfield. It can get very cold here in Goldfield in the winter, down to 0 F. We also have a much larger type of scorpion here, which is bright yellow with a black back, maybe...
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This one was outside my garage this morning at 8 a.m. I'm not sure if dead or just playing dead. A month ago, my roommate was stung while digging through pine needles under a pine tree 20 feet away from here, while installing a drip watering system.
So I am guessing the one that stung him was...
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