Has anyone noticed some of their scorpions love negative geotaxis? (hanging upside down)

RMLeone

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My Girl Frankie loves negative geotaxis. I know some species like the Arizona Bark Scorpion does this.

One of her favorite places is on the screen top hanging upside down. She can often be found hanging upside-down for long periods of time.

Does anyone else have scorpions that love to hang upside-down?
 

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RMLeone

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Very interesting 🧐 are they arboreal or it just a good climber.?
The have been found in date trees in Morocco but they also can be found in rocks in the mountains and near riverbeds and oasis. I just think they are good climbers.
 

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Aside from things like Centruroides and Tityus, which just kinda like being upside down, I also noticed my Pseudouroctonus apacheanus have molted by digging a burrow and then hanging upside down from the ceiling of the burrow. I've also seen a lot of pictures of Heterometrus hanging upside down from the ceiling of the enclosure if they have access to it, I don't know if this is because they like being upside down, or they just have a climbing instinct that leads them to the ceiling, or if they're just trying to escape and end up there though.
 

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Just Hang'n Out... No place to go anyway.
Upside Down
 
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RMLeone

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Just Hang'n Out... No place to go anyway.
Nope, and I wouldn't want her wandering my house especially with a cat who lives her, and I'd hate to be sleeping and wake up to something scratchy and brush it off and get stung😂. I already got stung by a LQ and that was not something I'd want to experience again.
 
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