How deos a scorpion eat?

[Biollantefan54]

This has been bothering me for a while now haha. I know how a spider eats but not a scorpion :/. Ok, after the scorpion pulls the pieces of its prey into its "mouth" what happens? All I know is that it has 2 'pincher' like things that it grabs it with. where does it pull it to after that? Thanks lol.

 

[ShredderEmp]

From what I understand, they first spit a little digestive juice onto the prey, then tear off pieces and digest them in a pre-oral cavity where digestion is finished, and then I think it goes to the stomach. I may be wrong so feel free to correct me.

 

[Biollantefan54]

But I cant see anything on scorpion videos and stuff, all I see is two mandible like things that pinch off chunks of there prey.

 

[Gnat]

well, after someone sees you bite a sandwich and start chewing, do they see where it goes after that?

 

[Biollantefan54]

lol good point haha.

 

[shebeen]

http://digestivemack.weebly.com/arthropoda.html

"For the scorpion, digestion begins outside the mouth. The food is semi-digested by digestive juices that are supplied to the preoral cavity by the gut, before it enters the scorpion's mouth. Setae, which is in the preoral cavity, filter indigestible material such as prey exoskeleton. These indigestible particles are matted togehter and expelled. Food passes from the mouth to the pharynx to the esophagus to the mid gut to the hind gut and is finally expelled through the anus. Drawing food into the body, the muscular pharynx acts as a pumping organ. Excretion wastes are expelled through the anus with feces."