A cute little SCORPION

Forehead

I thought I'd try and finally get some quail shots (right, Harry?) but they were shinneying deeper and deeper in the catclaw for the night. So on the way back to my house, I turned over a piece of plywood, and found this scorpion, complete with venom dripping from its tail.

And yes, I just had to "live on the edge" and get within an inch or so with the ol' camera lens!

Forehead

This little fella was maybe three inches long.

Forehead wrote:

I thought I'd try and finally get some quail shots (right, Harry?) but they were shinneying deeper and deeper in the catclaw for the night. So on the way back to my house, I turned over a piece of plywood, and found this scorpion, complete with venom dripping from its tail.

And yes, I just had to "live on the edge" and get within an inch or so with the ol' camera lens!

Forehead

Here's one more of a dozen shots I took, REALLLLLL close-like.

You know, I was actually going to walk away from that scorpion but, after the last shot, it charged at me.

CHARGED at me, mind you!

Well, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. But I think I should start wearing my steel-toed hiking boots again, and stop trapesing around in my sandals!

Forehead wrote:

This little fella was maybe three inches long.

Dalantech

Excellent shots! There are some black scorpions at my mother in law's farm -about a centimeter and a half long. I may go looking for some this week.

So, where is the dragonfly? Sorry -had to be done

Skippy

Forehead wrote:

I thought I'd try and finally get some quail shots (right, Harry?) but they were shinneying deeper and deeper in the catclaw for the night. So on the way back to my house, I turned over a piece of plywood, and found this scorpion, complete with venom dripping from its tail.

And yes, I just had to "live on the edge" and get within an inch or so with the ol' camera lens!

We have Scorpions here too, I personally have not seen them around my house, but a friend from work who lives not far from me gets them quite a bit.

They look great..... I love how they hold their sting above their head if they feel threatened, and their pinches on the ready to tackle anything that gets in their way......and best of all they glow under Ultra Violet lights
Nice series Forehead Skippy (Australia)

ziggy53

I was born in San Antonio, Lackland AFB, and when I was really small, my folks moved back to Illinois.

A couple of years later, I was watching TV with my folks and a scorpion showed on the screen. I asked my folks if they were all yellow colored? My folks were a little taken back because it was a B&W TV, and the only way I could have known about the color of the scorpion is if I had seen one in Texas, of which they were never aware. It could have even been in the house?

These images give me a chill.

ziggy53

Frog Lady

so, how close did you get (there is an advantage to zoom lenses ) I like the 1st two best and the way you can see the individual "hairs" on its tail.

C.

Forehead

Hi Froggy!

You know that I escaped from Fontana last week for good. Me and bronchitis don't get along, you know.

My lens was within two inches of that critter, and I had my eye on that TAIL the whole time :uhoh but, sometimes you just gotta get right in there and push the envelope. With the rapidly-fading light level, using zoom would have required flash, but sometimes I want to be "all natural"--even if there's that menacing TAIL to contemplate nervously!

Frog Lady wrote:

so, how close did you get (there is an advantage to zoom lenses ) I like the 1st two best and the way you can see the individual "hairs" on its tail.

C.

Forehead

Well, with the heat wave gripping most of the nation, I thought you might appreciate a "chill" here and there to take the edge off the burn

ziggy53 wrote:

I was born in San Antonio, Lackland AFB, and when I was really small, my folks moved back to Illinois.

A couple of years later, I was watching TV with my folks and a scorpion showed on the screen. I asked my folks if they were all yellow colored? My folks were a little taken back because it was a B&W TV, and the only way I could have known about the color of the scorpion is if I had seen one in Texas, of which they were never aware. It could have even been in the house?

These images give me a chill.

ziggy53

Awais Yaqub

You are brave great photos

Forehead

I bet those Eastern Water Dragons you have over there just LOVE to munch on them!

Skippy wrote:

We have Scorpions here too, I personally have not seen them around my house, but a friend from work who lives not far from me gets them quite a bit.

They look great..... I love how they hold their sting above their head if they feel threatened, and their pinches on the ready to tackle anything that gets in their way......and best of all they glow under Ultra Violet lights
Nice series Forehead Skippy (Australia)

Forehead

Not nearly as brave as people who ride CAMELS, what with the way they spit on you all the time.

Not that YOU have any camels, I'm sure

Awais Yaqub wrote:

You are brave great photos

Frog Lady

Forehead wrote:

Hi Froggy!

You know that I escaped from Fontana last week for good. Me and bronchitis don't get along, you know.

My lens was within two inches of that critter, and I had my eye on that TAIL the whole time :uhoh but, sometimes you just gotta get right in there and push the envelope. With the rapidly-fading light level, using zoom would have required flash, but sometimes I want to be "all natural"--even if there's that menacing TAIL to contemplate nervously!

hopefully you got out before the worst of the heat and ended up some place a bit cooler (AZ mtns?). Sorry the smog didn't agree w/ you; but you're lucky you weren't here 20-25 yrs ago when we actually had stage 3 smog alerts!

lookin' forwards to see what else you can find in cottonwood to capture in "electrons".

cheers,

C.

Awais Yaqub

Forehead wrote:

Not nearly as brave as people who ride CAMELS, what with the way they spit on you all the time.

Not that YOU have any camels, I'm sure

beleive it or not i am totaly confused i do have seen camal been slughtered but i didn't got you :uhoh

Forehead

Some people ride camels, you know. They've even been tried here in the US but, for some reason (maybe they SPIT on people too much and offended Yankee sensibilities!), they didn't work out that well.

Awais Yaqub wrote:

beleive it or not i am totaly confused i do have seen camal been slughtered but i didn't got you :uhoh

Cinda

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!:uhoh

Forehead

Now, now. Count your blessings.

At least you don't have to KISS it to see if it becomes a handsome prince!

Cinda wrote:

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!:uhoh

fire1035

You know a nice 22oz framing hammer will solve that little problem you have there.

Forehead

Sorry. The only thing I have on hand is a 10-pound sledge hammer.

But that would work too, RIGHT???

fire1035 wrote:

You know a nice 22oz framing hammer will solve that little problem you have there.

fire1035

Forehead wrote:

Sorry. The only thing I have on hand is a 10-pound sledge hammer.

But that would work too, RIGHT???

That's even better. You don't have to get as close. :deadhorse (sorry they don't have a guy beating a scorpion to death)

Brooks P

There are more than 30 species of scorpions found in Arizona, but only three of them are considered common. Yours is a Striped Tail Scorpion (Vaejovis spinigerus), the most common, and not considered very dangerous. The Striped Tail Scorpion’s sting only produces localized pain and swelling, comparable to a bee sting. The one that you have to be very careful of, is the Bark Scorpion (Centruroides exilicauda), which happens to be the smallest of the three common scorpions found in Arizona. The Bark Scorpion is straw colored and seldom grows to more than an inch. The third common scorpion is the Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion (Hadrurus arizonensis) which gets to about 6 inches, but is seldom seen as it burrows and only comes out at night.

All the same those are some excellent pictures. Even knowing they are not dangerous, I don’t think I would want to get too close with a camera. I have handled them, allowing them to crawl from one hand to the other, it was a requirement back in the Fifties and early Sixties in Arizona schools. They got passed from student to student (hand to hand) and I never heard of anyone getting stung.

Forehead

Thank you for the entomology lesson!

Now, what in the heck are you doin' in Lemon Grove? Not many scorpions there :confused

Brooks P wrote:

There are more than 30 species of scorpions found in Arizona, but only three of them are considered common. Yours is a Striped Tail Scorpion (Vaejovis spinigerus), the most common, and not considered very dangerous. The Striped Tail Scorpion’s sting only produces localized pain and swelling, comparable to a bee sting. The one that you have to be very careful of, is the Bark Scorpion (Centruroides exilicauda), which happens to be the smallest of the three common scorpions found in Arizona. The Bark Scorpion is straw colored and seldom grows to more than an inch. The third common scorpion is the Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion (Hadrurus arizonensis) which gets to about 6 inches, but is seldom seen as it burrows and only comes out at night.

All the same those are some excellent pictures. Even knowing they are not dangerous, I don’t think I would want to get too close with a camera. I have handled them, allowing them to crawl from one hand to the other, it was a requirement back in the Fifties and early Sixties in Arizona schools. They got passed from student to student (hand to hand) and I never heard of anyone getting stung.

Brooks P

Forehead wrote:

Thank you for the entomology lesson!

Now, what in the heck are you doin' in Lemon Grove? Not many scorpions there :confused

Dreaming about the day I can move out of California, and back to Arizona.

Not many at all. I have lived here for thirty-years and I have never seen a single one. Lots of Black Widow spiders but no scorpions.