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This is a Parabuthus trans. We have seven parabuthus trans. in our laboratory and this is clearly an example of that east/south african species. Notice the setae (hair like projections) on and about the telson. This animal is capable of spraying its venom so beware how you interact with it...

Being Proactive I agree, being proactive and acting responsibly goes a long way toward promoting these animals and our interests. All of the problems I have read of and observed relate to insufficient knowledge on the part of the people involved.

No Problem With Hypoaspis miles (Predatory Mites) Dear Forum Members, I received this response from the director of the Biocontrol Network, provider of Hypoaspis miles (Predatory Mites): The "food mite" included with the Hypoaspis is Tyrophagus putrescentiae, a common food mite. This mite...

Dear Forum Members, The problems with parasitic mites has been frequently posted and reviewed by many in many different areas of the forum. As discussed variously in the forum a method for controling or eliminating pest mites is through the use of Predatory Mites (Hypoaspis miles). I...

I just purchased a 4"-5" Scolopendra Subspinipes from a local pet store that had no idea of the nature of the animal. I was told the person that sold it to the pet store was eager to sell it to them. Once I explained the nature of the animal and its needs they were uncomfortable with their...

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Scorpion as venom conservers paper See this paper and references: http://home.online.no/~janor/paper.htm

A Method to catch the scorpion Place sticky traps (used for catching mice or rats) under or behind couches, sofas or beds and along baseboards where the scorpion might travel at night.

What kind of a tank was it? Could you describe the tank that the animal escaped from? What kind of a top did it have? If it was a glass tank was there a silicon bead keeping the glass plates in place? What was inside the tank, i.e. substrate, hides etc.?

Scorpion Venom Peptides Here is some information regards the scorpion toxin peptides chlorotoxin and charbydotoxin in Leiurus quinquestriatus, aka the death stalker scorpion. http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session2/group13/scorpions.html

Scorpion Venom Scorpion venom is a peptide cocktail, not a protein, which varies for different species. A peptide is an amide combining the amino group of one amino acid with the carboxyl group of another; usually obtained by partial hydrolysis of a protein. Scorpions are known to be venom...

Safety Protocol for Hot Scorps I have a large scorpion collection and many hot scorpions that I study for professional reasons as well as personal interest. As others have stated here they are not different to take care of except the safety protocols must be followed religiously to avoid...

Regular Forum Activity Dear forum members, Do to the success of this tonight I am going to do this with other scorpion species too. I have a large collection of different scorpion species, which I continue to extend for both professional and personal reasons. Using what I will call the...

Firefox Browser Others that have tried to use Firefox have experienced problems, i.e. the control loads yet then nothing is displayed. Those microsoft windows users that have experienced this problem have been able to use the internet explorer successfully (assuming it is still on your windows...

Dark Screen (cont.) Also forcing a reload of the page might also correct the problem with viewing the website if you have previously viewed our website within prior to last week, i.e. it was recently modified for better viewing performance after customer feedback and your browser may still be...

Dark Screen We have had reports of a black screen before. Clearning the internet temporary directory and/or the history directory and then accessing the website again and downloading the control has in the past corrected this.

Scorpion WebCam Thanks for the complement. Perhaps I will do this regularly with different scorpions. Customer interactions allowed us to tune the type of video cameras used here and also how they were deployed for best viewing performance. We found that surviellance cameras work better than...

Dear Forum Members, I thought it would be interesting for you to see the Anti-Mammal and Anti-Insect Lqqiii Scorpion Toxin molecular structure from the Leiurus quinquestriatus (aka Deathstalker) scorpion, along side a live male Leiurus quinquestriatus, both of which I have set up for forum...

I found this on the Merck corprate website, a large pharmaceutical company specializing in so-called small molecule theraputics and other drugs. I personally found it rather patronizing in parts, from a scorpion keepers (such as myself) perspective, and relatively vague in others, perhaps even...