Hottentotta tamulus doesn't appear that toxic to insects

[Johnn]

Hottentotta Tamulus is the deadliest scorpion on the planet to man, yet check out what happened when my Hottentotta Tamulus got into it with a roach. The first video takes place close to the beginning of the battle. The second one is about 30 or so mins after the first battle began, the third video is about 2 hrs 50 mins after the first one began, the 4rth video is 3 hr and 15 mins since the first video began, and the fifth is 4 hr and 45 min since it began and the 6th and final video is 5 hours from the initial sting. Amazing this roach survived so long lol.

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[Outpost31Survivor]

Hottentotta Tamulus is the deadliest scorpion on the planet to man, yet check out what happened when my Hottentotta Tamulus got into it with a roach. The first video takes place close to the beginning of the battle. The second one is about 30 or so mins after the first battle began, the third video is about 2 hrs 50 mins after the first one began, the 4rth video is 3 hr and 15 mins since the first video began, and the fifth is 4 hr and 45 min since it began and the 6th and final video is 5 hours from the initial sting. Amazing this roach survived so long lol.

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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. Likewise with b-toxins (beta). Scorpions can behaviorally meter their venom because venom is quite metabolically expensive. Maybe H. tamulus instinctually only concerned with incapacitating / paralyzing the roach not killing it or maybe the roach has some resistance to its anti-insect toxins. Roaches are tough afterall. But what matters most is the roach became a meal. Never measure what a medically significant scorpion could do to an insect or by how fast it kills or incapacitates an insect to what it is capable of doing to a human being. Different toxins are involved.