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Scorpions taffy
After moving from Maine to Arizona I was missing all the wild critters I use to feed in my back yard.
But after living here about a month I walked into my bathroom one night and found a very small ( about ¼ inch long )
Bark scorpion walking across the floor. So rather than killing it I put it a jar and named her Sue after an old girl friend that was a predator in her own way. LOL
This is a pic of Sue just after finding her and the link goes to a short vid you can watch her getting a cricket .
Scorpions are neat critters. They were one of the first to leave the sea to walk on land some 400 million years ago.


Sue eating
hxxp://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v206/drbuck/?action=view&current=Sue-Eating2.flv
>> Sue under UV light taffy
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>> Anonymous
baby scorpions do not glow under uv/blacklight. They can also climb acquarium glass.
>> taffy
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All scorpions glow under a UV light.
NO they can not climb glass.

GO TO SCHOOL!

Here's Cassandra under a UV light.
She's a Imperial Scorpion about 6 in. long
>> Anonymous
>>120021
I WISH my school had Practical Scorpionics...
>> Anonymous
So, I herd that the scorpion ancestors were the human ancestors' deadliest enemies millions of years ago. Back then, scorpions were the size of horses and humans were smaller than rodents, and they caught us for food.

But their large size took a toll on them - the only way they could survive longer with the pull of gravity continuously trying to cave their exoskeletons in was to get smaller and smaller.

Now we smash them under our boots... or catch them and put them in jars.
>> taffy
Scorpionics ???

Maybe you should go to the music page!!!
>> Anonymous
>>120027
though that's all based on speculation, based on an assumption, which, frankly lacks any more solid evidence than the alternatives.
>> Anonymous
SCORPION WINS

FRIENDSHIP
>> Cassandra in normal light taffy
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Actually the reduction in size was due to the way they get oxygen into there system.
They didn’t have lungs and that more than gravity limited the size of all insects.
>> taffy
Before someone corrects me I should have said all critters with exoskeletons.
Scorpions and spiders are not insects.
>> Anonymous
First coons, now scorpions?
>> Anonymous
And cats... http://youtube.com/watch?v=o5vGjmt-j3M

Enjoyed your vid of Sue eating, btw! NOM NOM NOM ... looks like she wants to be left alone to finish her meal!! (couldn't tell if there was audio, need a new sound card)
>> Anonymous
a scorpion is an arachnid, is it not?
>> Anonymous
>>120153
Scorpions are arachnids, like spiders, ticks, and mites.
>> taffy
Yes scorpions and spiders are arachnids
No that’s not my cat vid or should I say slide show.
I really hate it when someone makes a slide show and calls it a vid.
>> taffy
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Imperial Scorpions are from Africa and dig their way into termite mounds for their home. These big guys can really dig up a storm.
This vid is Cassandra digging out a home for herself, I took this one night before I went to bed. The photo it what I found the next morning. A big change in the tank.

Cassandra digging--http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v206/drbuck/?action=view&current=Cassdiggingin.flv