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Public Forums => San Gabriel Mtns Flora - Fauna => Topic started by: WWDREAMN on Aug 22, 05, 06:40:42 PM
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Two in the last 24 hours 1st one stung my daughter in her bedroom last night, second one in the back yard today. Is this normal? Do they just like my house for some reason? Is it mating season or something? How do I get rid of them?
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I saw one on the carpet in our house once - I learned not to walk barefoot at night in the dark.
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We haven't seen any for a number of years.
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Hi WWDreamn,
How is your daughter? Did she get ill??? What did you do for her?
They are here!!!!Several weeks ago I had one in our garage. Last year I had one in my upstairs closet & one outside in the dirt in my flower box.
Make sure not to leave shoes laying around -I have also found one in a pair of shoes in my garage....check carefully before putting on.
Oh man, scorpions freak me out!!!!!!
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Two in the last 24 hours 1st one stung my daughter in her bedroom last night, second one in the back yard today. Is this normal? Do they just like my house for some reason? Is it mating season or something? How do I get rid of them?
As you discovered, local scorpions can deliver a sting very similar to a bee sting but seldom cause complications beyond local pain, redness and some slight swelling. Bark Scorpions that are found in the Arizona desert have a much more potent venom and potential for injury or death.
Scorpions hunt at night. Take a black light and walk around the house and yard. The scorpion will glow bright white....something in their exoskelton (or whatever it is called) really glows. You certainly could also call an exterminator for thorough removal of scorpions. They can come into your house on the most minute of cracks or openings. Sealing those will help.
We've lived here for 32 years and had the first scorpion inside our house two weeks ago. Picked him up on a piece of paper and shooed him out of the house.
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Thanks for your concern, my daughter is fine. As wildman said, it was just like a bee sting, mostly just freaked us all out.
How about the stuff you can buy and spray the perimiter of the house would that at least deter them from coming in?
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You could check with Mike at Mountain Hardware....he might have a product that will include Scorpions on their list of bugs affected. I know that products containing Dursban are common and safe to use around the home.
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Thanks for your concern, my daughter is fine. As wildman said, it was just like a bee sting, mostly just freaked us all out.
How about the stuff you can buy and spray the perimiter of the house would that at least deter them from coming in?
Happy to hear your daughter is fine! I know it must have scared you so much! Glad to hear she is doing good.
MtnGal
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Found one in my garage a couple years ago. My dad and his friend who has lived here 20 years assured me it must have hitched a ride home from a desert Jeep trip because there are no scorpions in Wrightwood. Never thought about it again until reading this. Looks like they were wrong.
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Scorpians are not new to Wrightwood. I remember seeing them all over when I was kid in the 50's
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finally made it to the hardware store today and got an insecticide that says it works on scorpions. Hope it is true. I will let you know.
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Found two little guys prowling the driveway this evening. Went and got a little battery operated black light and they glowed like little Halloween lanterns. Went looking for more but no joy.
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I have had two scorpions in my garage in two days. Has anyone seen any on there property or in there house lately. Is it rare to see them here? I live near the Pacific Crest development can this be stirring them up?
I am so freaking out! Almost stepped on one last night. I have called for an exterminator in hopes that will be successful to rid of them.
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Two years ago one stung my cat, so they are around. I've never seen one and that's fine with me. I'm in the Pinon Mesa area.
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don't hurt them.
i'm a scorpio.
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sorry Sandman......I wacked them good! lol's
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I don't believe there are any poisonous ones in California.
Not that it wouldn't hurt if they stung you, but that's about it.
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Last year I came across about 15-20 during the summer. This year I have seen none down here in pinon hills. *Knocks on wood*
sorry Sandman......I wacked them good! lol's
We did too... It's creepy seeing thoes ugly things coming at you so what do you do? Find the nearest object and wack them good. ::) Now if I came across one I would try to relocate them.
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there was one in our backyard a few weeks ago. it was about this time last year that my daughter was stung by one that was in her bedroom and we saw another in the yard shortly there after. We are always on the lookout for them around here. we are also on the eastside of town, I thought it maybe because we back up to the wash, but I am starting to think it is just common for them to be around.
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Nope, treated it like a bee sting, a little ice and some tylenol and she was fine.
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Scorpions will glow under black light. You can buy 48" black light tubes at home depot that work in regular fuorescent fuxtures for $18.00. Take one outside at night and see what you can find.
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Found a write up Dr. Bush over at Loma Linda wrote
Since it is so long here is the link. http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic524.htm (http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic524.htm)
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if anyone catches a scorpion, i'd love to have it. i'd want to put it into a terratium temporarily to show the students and especially to take a picture of it under my blacklight...
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URL to University of Arizona page on Scorpions. Black Info here.
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/az1223/#Blacklighting (http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/az1223/#Blacklighting)
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My cat's paw swelled up to the size of a golf ball. I didn't even know scorpions were up here until I rushed him into the vet. He was a very sick kitty.
I imagine that if the same scorpion had stung a human it wouldn't have affected them much given their greater body mass. But it was sure bad for my cat!
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In another life, I went on a walk at night with a guy who was doing his doctorate on scorpions. (I was a caretaker at a scientific research center.)
We took a black light, because they flouresce. He showed me how to pick them up (by the end of the tail so that they can't sting).
Then he showed me how to tell a female from a male. (Look at the underside. :o )
That was the guy that told me that there are no poisonous ones in our area.
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How scary!! I knew there would be a lot of bugs and spiders up in the mountains, but scorpions.... ??? Yikes!
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Oh, I am so with you. They freak me out.
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http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/links.php
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Look what was guarding the Big Pines Station when I went into work this morning. He was sunning himself in the early morning sun in the parking lot where the USFS trucks are parked.
It is the biggest scorpion I've seen up here. It was three inches long. I should have put something next to him for scale.
I tried to shoo him off and this was the response I got:
(http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr347/RobertWMorgan/USFS/Scorpion.jpg)
He just refused to leave his spot and was there a little later when I went back out to the truck to retrieve my radios.
Later when we were turning the water on at Mountain Oak Campground we found a Chigger:
(http://images.enature.com/insects_spid/insects_spid_m/is0151_1m.jpg)
Spring and warmer weather is bringing out the critters. ;D
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I didn't know we had chiggers up here, that's one more thing to look out for.
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Dog wanted to go out last night at 1:30. When I opened the garage door to let her back in, a scorpion came in with her. She just about stepped on it, in fact I think she did step on it but she avoided being stung.
I've never seen a scorpion in town before. In fact it's only the second one I've ever seen period. What keeps them away? I don't want to scorpion friendly - lol.
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Eek! Other forum members have reported seeing them but I never have in 8 years. I had a cat who got stung by one though; the vet confirmed it when I brought my kitty in. Those are some freaky insects -- or rather arthropods. (I looked that one up.)
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I stepped on a Scorpion once while shaving barefoot in a very rural small town in Langostura Mexico. When I looked down at it, my jaw dropped. Anyway, I wonder if racoons eat scorpions? Maybe snakes and coyotes or bobcats, etc?
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