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Scorpion farming ???
Read a news paper article today about a local that does just such, there is apparently a need for the venom for cancer research and antidote medications. It appears very lucrative.
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Hey.
Around Mesa, AZ you can get plenty of em for free.
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I though about getting into this but figured it was just another sting operation 
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The need for Venom is REAL and there is A large demand, The Spent Critters are sold to be encased in Plastic for decorations. There also is A large Market for Snake Venom!!!
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10/24/07, 09:20 PM
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I live in Arizona and there is a scorpion under just about every rock. I used to sell them to a lady who would "milk" them for venum. I made big money for a kid. The desert hairy scorpion glows bright green when in the presents of a blacklight. I used to go out at night and collect them by the bucketloads. I also sold her diamondback and sidewinder rattlesnakes. I never told her but I would have done it for free.
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Hey.
Around Mesa, AZ you can get plenty of em for free.
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Yup! Nothing better than a free-range scorpion. Those corporate farm raised scorpions you get in the mighty mart are not nearly as good!
Once you've had a free-range scorpion, you won't go back to those styrofoam and plastic wrapped wonders!
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There must be money in it.
The Chinese are doing it!
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/re...ad/china-1.pdf
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Up around the east coast they use horseshoe crabs for that .......
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There are people that raise crickets too. I remember seeing a really nicely painted van with a cricket on the side.
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10/25/07, 10:27 AM
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Of course. You have to feed the Scorpions something>
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They probably have LEAD in theirs LOL 
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Yup! Nothing better than a free-range scorpion. Those corporate farm raised scorpions you get in the mighty mart are not nearly as good!
Once you've had a free-range scorpion, you won't go back to those styrofoam and plastic wrapped wonders!
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This is one of the funniest things I ever read on this board!!!!!
But seriously, who would ever want to farm these horrid creatures. Gives me the shivers just thinking about it.
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This ranks right up there along with platypus farming. And platypi aren't the greatest to handle with those sharp spurs on their legs!
Perhaps instead of rabbit pyramid schemes, we will next be hearing about scorpion pyramid schemes!
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There is a ligatement market for scorpion venom, can you say Goggle? At the rate of $35,000,000.00 per gallon it seem to be not adequately filled. This is not a comedy subject but is an awareness of a possible source of income.
Scorpion venom is the highest priced fluid currently, per gallon, in the entire world. Where do you think antivenom comes from?
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There is a ligatement market for scorpion venom, can you say Goggle? At the rate of $35,000,000.00 per gallon it seem to be not adequately filled. This is not a comedy subject but is an awareness of a possible source of income.
Scorpion venom is the highest priced fluid currently, per gallon, in the entire world. Where do you think antivenom comes from?
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Wonder how many scorpions you would have to milk to get a gallon? And where do you get a milking stool that short?
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I used to catch them in the late 1970's, in soutwest wyoming and northwest utah. I sent them c.o.d. to arizona state university. I made good money. As I was out in the desert. Looking for arrowheads,metal detecting,prospecting, ect. Anyway. That is how I ended up in the hospital. Scorpion poisoning. I was climbing uphill with a metal coffee can held by one hand. I slipped hand in can. Mulitple bites on hand and wrist. Barely made it to hopsital 35 miles away. Very painful more than rattlesnake bite.
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I think Scorpions are the absolutely worst creatures on the earth, having been stung 3 times. Walked on one in my bare feet in my house one night in the dark. Never have had anything so painful!
They can get through the smallest hairline crack in your home, hiding during the day & come out at night.
I actually would be afraid to "farm" them, never knowing if one got loose. Even needing money, I'd pass on that.
Many brave/stupid people catch them in the desert with a blacklite at night in AZ as they glow. There's many different kinds, large wood scorpions, etc, but the worst venom comes from the little translucent ones.
I get goose bumps just thinking of them. What a halloween topic!
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.... I actually would be afraid to "farm" them, never knowing if one got loose. Even needing money, I'd pass on that....
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All you have to do is keep a dark hutch far away from your home (or neighbors) and set up lots of tanks where no one goes, so they cannot be disturbed. To maximize space, you can put the tanks up on shelves and have a small, shaky, ladder to reach the top tank. That way, you can have hundreds, no..thousands of scorpions to tend to.
Go alone at night to check up on them from time to time after having a few glasses of wine or scotch to relax yourself a bit....feed them... bugs and things.... Hear their little pincers clicking like rice crispies in the dark.
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That's just weird enough to be intreguing.
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