I dont know too much about Identifying scorpions, but this little guy has such small pedepalps, I just dont think its a desert hairy. When I throw crickets in with it, itll wait for the cricket to die then eat it. Almost like a scavenger. It's pincers just dont look very strong at all.
Yeah your right, that's a taxonomy fail on my part.
That's why I was thinking to.I don't think it's S.g.striatus,so probably S.g. gerschi.
Oh wow, very cool bro! Do you go out with a blacklight at night, flip rocks in the day, or find these on your property? Im a huge fan of the Desert Hairy's! They are so bad ass! I may have a couple gravid female Dune ScorpionsFound this guy in Desert Hot Springs just north of Palm Springs. prolly same SP
I've never been out with a black light, if I were to do that i'm sure that i'd have way better success.... I just go out herping in that area a lot, and I work out there alot so I'm always checking under wood and trash piles. I've found most by naked eye just flipping wood and trash at dusk, right when they come out. I'll eventually do a night run for rattlesnakes and Scorpions when it gets a little hotter, as in staying hot ( 90 degrees ) at night. Just did a night run out there last week, it was terrible, good temps, but really high winds. I'm going out there tomorrow hopefully I can snag a few if i'm lucky.
Right on, that sounds cool. Yeah last time I was out lookin for scorpions we found a sidewinder. Unfortunately we didnt have anything to catch it with. I love sidewinders. Id build a real.sweet enclosure for that if I had it.
