Scorpions, they really do glow...

[Honu]

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Yup glow great picked up a 3 cell mag lite bulb that makes em glow further away than the smaller ones
We had over 28 in our AZ home when we got here
Down to a few a year
Wife was stung in her toe ! Ouch she was laid up for two days

Our kids were our fear and I am allergic to bees so not sure how are kids will fare ?

Few things I found worked get some double stick indoor outdoor carpet tape and run it across door thresholds in high heat areas it can melt a bit but we caught a lot coming in off our garage and patio door area
Has to be good strong tape like the indoor outdoor noticed the cheap stuff did not hold them
We also wrapped it around the bed/crib legs when they were young freaked us out when one was stuck to it !
Have also caught then climbing walls and our stairs

Try the double stick tape though just a strip all the way across just to the inside of the door going over a few inches each side see if ya get em squeezing in
Also got this powder stuff and blew it into all our power receptacles heard they like to come in there it's a powder that dried them out over a few days
Agree commercial sprays do little but it kills all there food source so some commercial grade food safe poison sprayed in house all baseboards and outside after a while you should notice a decrease cause of lack of food source from them
Since they can go something like 6 months or something freaky without eating takes a while

One spray I found kills them quick if they crawl into a hole ours outside sit near the breathe holes near our foundation and crawl back in! is raid hornet spray in the blue can way better than other things I have tried

Our house is backed up to a nature preserve so I can go out and get them every night

Have heard get chickens and no more scorpions

[jwinch2]

The granules supposedly work pretty well for scorpions also, and may be worth a try. Having recently moved to San Antonio, I was concerned about them as well, and put down some granules every couple of months in addition to spraying both inside and out. Since you live in a place that hardly ever gets rain, once you lightly water than granules in, they should last a long time.

[Irish]

DE, double sided tape and granules... Got the first 2 but what are these granules you're referring to? Thanks for the recommendations.

[Mr blasty]

There aren't any species of dangerous wild scorpions in the US. We have level 1's and 2's. Basically bee sting and wasp sting levels. 3's will send you to the hospital but you should recover and 4's are lethal without anti venom. As long as you're not allergic to bees you should be fine. If you are just keep your epi handy. I have scorpions, spiders, snakes and lizards of all kinds and I'm no stranger to bites and stings. I assure you that there not much of a threat. Although I'm sure they're a big nuisance.

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[Irish]

There aren't any species of dangerous wild scorpions in the US.

Bullshit. Tell that to the people who've lost children.

Dawn Bray worried she might lose a second child to a scorpion’s sting.

A bark scorpion stung her 6-year-old son Morgan last May. As the family rushed him to the hospital in Globe, a wave of fear came over Bray. Six years earlier, in May 2002, she lost her 2-year-old son Dally to a bark scorpion’s sting.

“When Morgan got bit, I was thinking that it was happening again,” Bray recalled this week. “With another son, we would have the same outcome.”

[Eurodriver]

I would rather live in a Communist Haven like Rhode Island than deal with those things.

Scorpions are right at the top of my "**** that shit" list.

[Mr blasty]

Bullshit. Tell that to the people who've lost children.

http://wtvr.com/2013/09/02/bee-wasp-...s-on-the-rise/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1272387/

What's your point? That people can die from relatively benign insects? Just because someone did die from a type 2 scorpion does not make them a super dangerous lethal animal. Blue ring octopuses are considered the most poisonous creature on earth and the total number of recorded deaths from them in history is only like 1 or 2 people. An infant can die from a simple cold pretty easily and chances are it will grow up to get a cold over 50 times as an adult without even missing work. Your argument is the same that the shrubmaster fan club uses. That a sample of one makes a statistical difference. You can even find several examples of people dying from them but the fact is that there statistically not very dangerous. I've been stung by type 2's and it's as bad as a hornet.

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[Moose-Knuckle]

I would rather live in a Communist Haven like Rhode Island than deal with those things.

Scorpions are right at the top of my "**** that shit" list.

LOL. We have eighteen species of scorpions here in TX, I've been stung by most of them. The Striped Bark Scorpion is the only one that can be found state wide. When I would get stung by these bastards as a child my mom would treat the injection site with bleach. Growing up here I've been stung by wasps, yellow jackets, bumble bees, scorpions. Thank the good Lord I was never bitten as a child by Brown Recluses or Black Widows. I grew up in a rural community and played outside mostly, struck at by plenty of snakes but never bitten (again thank the good Lord and knock on wood) as we have fifteen of the twenty venomous snakes found in the US.

[Irish]

http://wtvr.com/2013/09/02/bee-wasp-...s-on-the-rise/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1272387/

The 1st is completely irrelevant and the 2nd is an irrelevant study from California, not the desert southwest, where the Arizona Bark Scorpion resides.

What's your point?

My point is that I've read several published articles that contradict your assertion that there are no dangerous wild scorpions in the U.S. That's it, nothing more. I'm not gonna go round and round playing the semantics game on the internet with you. Choose what you wish to believe, I'm fine with that.

If you'd like I'll send you a box of the lil ****ers and you can video yourself being stung and post it on Youtube for our amusement.

Have a nice evening.

[Kain]

When we moved into a house in Georgia it was during the height of a drought and we had these little scorpions running around constantly. Our two house cats had a field day with them. Would pounce on them and beat the little ****ers flat as paper. You'd go into the basement and under teh stairs there would be DOZENS of flat dead scorpions. After that summer we only ever saw scorpions once or twice after that.

Also, wasp spray doesn't do shit to the little bastards. Doesn't do shit to blackwidows either.