I can deal with bears in the backyard and bobcats on the courtyard wall — and the coyotes singing at night — but this creature scared me. The photo is poor and you can’t really see his stinger curled up — I hurried for fear he would scamper under the bed and I would have to move to Nova Scotia.
According to Wikipedia, a scorpion sting does not require medical attention except for children or the elderly. I did not find that reassuring.
I had never seen a scorpion before; this one was between my chair and my bed.
Yikes indeed. If that’s an Arizona bark scorpion – as it seems to be – you definitely don’t want to get stung.
I hope they don’t get this far north. It’s bad enough worrying about brown recluse spiders.
I get them all summer long in Rio Rancho. This year has been extreme as I have had over 30 of them this summer.
I highly recommend glue traps.