Found Scorpions, ID?

[CyclingSam]

I found a lot of five of these critters at a church building in Henderson, NV. I do not really have any experience with scorpions. Are they C. sulpturatus? Would it be a terrible idea to try and keep them?

 

[darkness975]

View attachment 273703 I found a lot of five of these critters at a church building in Henderson, NV. I do not really have any experience with scorpions. Are they C. sulpturatus? Would it be a terrible idea to try and keep them?

Looks like it.

You can keep them. Don't get stung or it will not be fun.

Ensure you set up the enclosure properly for this arboreal species. Centruroides spp. need vertically oriented bark to hide and climb in (and molt if not mature).

 

[CyclingSam]

Looks like it.

You can keep them. Don't get stung or it will not be fun.

Ensure you set up the enclosure properly for this arboreal species. Centruroides spp. need vertically oriented bark to hide and climb in (and molt if not mature).

Ok, so for an enclosure, I need a few pieces of vertical bark and a water disk. What kind of substrate should I use? I used coco and vermiculite for all my Ts.

 

[pannaking22]

Ok, so for an enclosure, I need a few pieces of vertical bark and a water disk. What kind of substrate should I use? I used coco and vermiculite for all my Ts.

Those substrates will work for the scorps too.

 

[FrDoc]

Darn, why don’t I find five ————-? Got a guy who posts about finding an A. Moderatum on the side of the road, now this. Then again, my house is a haven for Lycocidae and I don’t keep them (unless I have an unused enclosure). So, I guess someone would consider that lucky.

 

[darkness975]

Ok, so for an enclosure, I need a few pieces of vertical bark and a water disk. What kind of substrate should I use? I used coco and vermiculite for all my Ts.

That's fine. They are arboreals anyway and will spend most of their time off the ground.

 

[Jesse607]

I would say they are more like opportunistic arboreals, by no means obligate arboreals. So an arboreal set up is not absolutely necessary. They seem to love hanging out on bark, but whether it's piled on the ground or vertical doesn't seem to matter in my experience....and hiding among stones is also not outside of their nature.

 

[crlovel]

I have a 50 gallon colony of 300+ sulpturatus, of all ages, sizes, etc. I started with 15 less than a year ago in a ten gallon tank. I quickly moved to a 20 extra long. Now it's a 50 breeder tank that is 4' x 2' x 1'. They don't need deep substrate, they don't need vertical cork to molt and mate. They will climb, but they're not arboreal. Mine prefer going under and inside of objects. Offer plenty of cork stacks, plenty of nooks and crannies, and plenty of room, because these things breed like rabbits. While it's a desert species, ensure there's humidity - humidity is essential for molting, especially the young ones. Every week, I pour two bottles of water over the enclosure - the screen sprays it out and gives everything a good soaking. Keep crickets in the tank - when you stop seeing crickets, add more. Otherwise, they'll eat each other. For substrate, I use peat moss and cocofiber mixed. I also have isopods in the tank, not just for corpse cleanup but for the babies to grab.

 

[ian550]

Hello, could someone please help to identify this scorpion I found under a brick in my garden? Thanks

 

[ZX14]

I believe that is a parabuthus sp.

 

[brandontmyers]

Hello, could someone please help to identify this scorpion I found under a brick in my garden? Thanks

Androctonus dekeyseri - It is the only described Androctonus from Senegal. Too far north and west to be Parabuthus

 

[LeFanDesBugs]

Do everything it takes to avoid being stung by this species. It could prove fatal. @ian550

 

[ian550]

Many thanks for the feedback and warnings, i assumed it was dangerous. You probably don't want to hear this but it met a grizzly end with the back of a shovel.

 

[ian550]

I put my head into this one's web opening my container door too. Gave me the fright of my life! I'm told it's a Golden Orb spider, and although it looks the devil incarnate, it's completely harmless?