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12/09/13, 09:50 PM
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stinging scorpions
How do y'all get rid of stinging scorpions ?? I have killed 4 or 5 in the last week or so, and one just awhile ago in the bathroom. I've haven't had to deal with these critters since my mamaws old farm house. Ugh.. worse our concrete floors are "scorpion brown", our dog sees them before I do, so I don't know how many I'm not seeing. There's no wood or overgrown weeds near the house ,no other bugs.I hate putting/spraying poison with the dog in and out of the house. Any ideas are appreciated. :-)
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12/10/13, 04:44 AM
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Get a couple of cats and some chickens. They will take care of it for you.
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12/10/13, 06:02 AM
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I dont know what you can do except speak to an exterminator. I know chickens do eat them but Yuck
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12/10/13, 09:12 AM
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Sticky traps will get them. Put the traps along the walls.
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12/10/13, 09:19 AM
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A friend has a black light (ultra violet) flashlight that he uses to locate them in the dark. They glow when he shines it on them. Then he smashes them with a fly swatter.
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12/10/13, 06:45 PM
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Retired farmer-rancher
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gila_dog
A friend has a black light (ultra violet) flashlight that he uses to locate them in the dark. They glow when he shines it on them. Then he smashes them with a fly swatter.
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Grandsons in Arizona do this. They have a broom stick with a flat 6" square board on the end and use it as their scorpion stomper. They demonstrated it for me last time I visited. I was amazed at how they glow under the black light flashlight. 
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12/10/13, 08:08 PM
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I'm going to see if I can find a black light to shine around. And put my boot on em....
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12/10/13, 08:48 PM
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stinging scorpions
Use a black light to find them, and supposedly dust DE around your house in a 3' band.
My kitchen on Thanksgiving Day...
Ew. My floor looks icky, and daughter needs a nail trim. LOL!
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12/10/13, 11:43 PM
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I'm reading too fast again. Saw the thread title, thought of the season, and thought you made a post about singing scorpions. I was all ready to see a line of caroling scorpions wishing holiday cheer.
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12/11/13, 11:57 PM
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DE might be the best way without having to hunt them
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12/12/13, 01:08 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samm
I'm going to see if I can find a black light to shine around. And put my boot on em....
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Inspector's flashlight. Home Depot has them for about $20.
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12/12/13, 07:41 AM
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Lol. No chorus of caroling scorpions here. :-) I never thought about home depot for a inspection light.....hmmm. goin to get one. We have had 1 or 2 kinda big one lives :-) like by your foot, but the rest was smaller. I've never been stung by one. And hoping I can prevent it. What's crazy is I think I'd rather have the scorpions than the big old wolfe or grass spiders....Ugh.
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10/11/14, 10:12 AM
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I got hit in the foot by one this summer.... Oh. My. Gawsh.
I thought I flipped a nail up and into my foot when I stepped down, but it was obviously a sting. Never saw the offender, but it burned and itched like CRAZY for a week, had a hard knot of swelling... It took two weeks for it to be gone-gone.
Much more duration that a wasp or bee sting. And much more intense itching. Bee stings are more tingly, while this was maddeningly itchy!
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10/11/14, 10:14 AM
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Never had one and sounds like I totally do NOT want one...
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10/11/14, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by handymama
Never had one and sounds like I totally do NOT want one...
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You don't! It'll rock you like a hurricane.
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10/11/14, 11:47 AM
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ck the bathtub, mine like to take showers, you can't drown them either, knock one in the toilet and watch it crawl around under the water. I only have them for the most part when the weather starts to change. My floors are good camo for them too, i look for movement.
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10/11/14, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by TenBusyBees
You don't! It'll rock you like a hurricane.
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Oh that is so true. I got hit while in bed sleeping. Not only once but I flexed my arm and got hit again.
Felt like a hot branding iron had been placed on me.
My whole arm was numb for a week. my fingers finally quit 'tingling' after a week. You know that feeling when say your arm goes to sleep, that is what it felt like AFTER the initial pain was gone.
Got the bugger that afternoon. And then the owner of the horse boarding stable I was staying at, got chickens and cats and no more of those nasties did I find.
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10/11/14, 09:53 PM
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Since the thread is pretty old Im hoping no one will mind if I hijack it some.
How do you guys that live in scorpion country camp out with them?
What keeps them from climbing in your sleeping bag or cuddling up with your ears?
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10/11/14, 09:55 PM
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They are supposed to come into camps for the warmth at night in the cooler weather...
I don't sleep on the ground.
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10/11/14, 10:03 PM
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Leave those spiders alone and concentrate on those scorpions...
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