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It is fine. I do not condone handling scorpion they should be respected as display animals such as fish. Also, I like to shoot down any suggestion that these are more advanced animals than they actually are. These aren't dogs, cats, birds, or even reptiles. One of a scorpion's survival instincts...

Scorpions are incapable of bonding they have a simple nervous system and ganglia for a brain. Extremely poor eyesight that detect both light and darkness and at best capable of identifying simple rudimentary shapes. They simply respond to external and environmental stimuli including level of...

Olivierus or Mesobuthus rarely systemic never fatal. But if they experience gastrointestinal disturbances (profuse vomiting and/or diarrhea), high blood pressure, rapid or irregular heartbeat, profuse sweating, shortness of breathe, or cold extremities (plural), etc they need to be rushed to...

Because Buthids have different toxins that have different target-specificity and purposes such as cause intense local pain, some a-toxins (alpha) are potent only to mammals but harmless arthropods, others are only potent to arthropods but harmless to mammals, and again some are potent to both...

Androctonus australis, crassicauda, and gonneti have beefy chela some Tityus species too. But only two scorpion families feature scorpions of medical importance, Buthidae and Hemiscorpiidae. The former for its potent anti-mammalian toxins and the latter for its potent cytotoxins.

Heterometrus silenus can be annoying as hell due to local swelling and cases of pruritus. A Paravaejovis spinigerus was painful only due to deep penetration of the aculeas. But my worst stings were Buthid stings C. vittatus for pain, swelling, and pruritus. And H. franzwerneri for eight hours...

Yes, I have seen this behavior in more than one genera in that they will tidy up their burrow or scrap by removing food remains.

Great! Now get them out of that 20g monstrosity and put them in a nice 2.5-5g comfortable space. Even deep extra large ventilated deli cups used for reptiles will suit them just fine until adulthood.

Burrowing substrate consisting of clay and sand. 75F-85F temps should be fine.

Hollywood demonizes them, morons think they can domesticate them. But nearly nothing is as stupid as treating an arachnid like a domesticated mammal, bird, or reptile... evolution perfected this creature millions of years ago. It is running on pure instinct, automatic reflexes to both external...

He couldn't even properly spell it. Reaper was having none of it. 🤣

Young Uroplectes vittatus? When this species matures it is approximately 2" in length. What is a 20 long? 20 gallon? That is way too much space when 3-5 gallons would have been plenty enough. But you probably mean 20" long so like a 6 gallon. How do you know they even escaped? They are probably...

@Johnn https://arachnoboards.com/threads/me-describing-my-leirus-quinquestriatus-sting-after-being-stung.366871/page-5#post-3394197 Take example from Tex the Scorpion King, play stupid games win stupid prizes. He suffered a serious envenomation but was smart enough to scuttle to the hospital...

The foul fraudulent practice of traditional medicine and the foolish pursuit of mind alternating substances. Mankind has proven to be truly a ship of fools. Sadly, mother nature often pays the costs.

There are many Heterometrinae species that have a telson lighter then the metasomal segment V. Including the cryptic real H. petersii which can easily be misidentified as H. spinifer. But true, H. silenus and H. laoticus share the same trait of possessing telsons as dark as the metasomal...

Absolutely incorrect, Heterometrus can have brownish bodies. Juvenile and subadult Heterometrus spinifer have cream / yellow telsons that turn reddish brown upon maturity just like Pandinus imperator. Both P. imperator and H. spinifer have very similar colored telsons. That is not a Pandinus...

Meh soft news piece that did little by means of investigative. Random pic probably lifted off of google, looks like a H. spinifer to me but not entirely 100% sure due to the pic quality.

I wonder how much of this is actually factual and how much is purely anecdotal. I suppose a sting can theoretically provide widespread paresthesia and lightheadedness ("euphoria"). Smoke inhalation delivery of venom could possibly provide a "high" or not. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Fortunately, it is not...

Only my thumb would alternate between throbbing smashed by hammer dull pain and icy cold chill. Also right at the point of the sting it feel like a tiny needle-sized screw was boring under my skin. Otherwise, I had no systemic symptons as far as I could tell maybe a doctor would have found...