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Urist
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Blacklighting for Scorpions!
#22239178 - 09/14/15 11:18 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I live in a pretty rural area and not too long ago I found my cat playing with a scorpion. So I got a black light for $10 and it has been the best money I've ever spent. Scorpions glow bright green in a black light so I can shine it at night and they stick out. I found like 20-30 of them, and like several different kinds. There were a ton peeking out of holes and they would run backwards into them when you got close. I highly recommend that people who live in southern areas buy a black light.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22239189 - 09/14/15 11:22 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I kinda doubt there are many scorpions around my area. Literally the only scorpion I've ever seen alive are ones in pet shops. Never seen one in the wild, and I was the kinda kid always exploring looking for critters. Have never even seen a dead one in the wild.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22239191 - 09/14/15 11:24 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I found my first and only Scorpion when I was in Texas earlier this year.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22239213 - 09/14/15 11:28 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Not all scorpions are deadly/dangerous or even close to it. A lot are just mildly painful to get stung by.
Also apparently this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_bark_scorpion is the most venomous scorpion in the US (minus pets). Which while it would suck to get stung by, an average healthy adult wouldn't really need to go to a hospital for.
And apparently there's people out there who get stung on purpose.
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Edited by Shroomslip (09/14/15 11:39 PM)
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Shroomslip]
#22239242 - 09/14/15 11:38 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yup, living in AZ I constantly see people with black lights out hunting. In my apartment complex we have been getting tons of scorpions indoors due to the monsoons. They come indoors when the ground is underwater. No lie, between me and the roommates we have killed about 6 scorpions in our shower this week alone.
I dislike them a lot. One was on my pillow one time and in the night I rolled my head on top of it. It stung the living fuck out of the inside of my ear. It was swollen for like 2 days lol.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: SushiKing]
#22239256 - 09/14/15 11:44 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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az with scorpions can be a royal pain in the ass.
from them fuckers always popping up, to having to keep your shoes upside down. constantly checking them everytime you put them on.
fuck that noise... glad i dont reside there anymore.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22239267 - 09/14/15 11:48 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'd take scorpions over cockroaches any day. We have tons of fucking cockroaches. At the right times of the year you can see them flying by the street lights at night in skin crawling inducing numbers.
Scorpions can't fly at you if you try to kill them. Plus other than getting stung, I'm not really afraid of them. I'd file them the same as spiders and I'm only "afraid" of spiders when they're physically on me, and it's only because I don't want to get bit.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22239336 - 09/15/15 12:11 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have a crippling phobia of roaches besides bites/stings are pretty rare. I've never once been bitten by a spider and I've had to kill hundreds of them just in the past 5-10 years alone. Lots with my bare hands because they're in a position where nothing else will work effectively.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Shroomslip]
#22239350 - 09/15/15 12:17 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I want to do this so bad.....this is epic, I like in so cal....and in a desert, it's gotta be possible
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Almond Flour]
#22239394 - 09/15/15 12:30 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Almond Flour said: I want to do this so bad.....this is epic, I like in so cal....and in a desert, it's gotta be possible
Well I live in So Cal and have only seen maybe 10-15 scorpions in my life before tonight, tonight I saw 20-30....they're just sneaky so you will usually never see them without a black light.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Almond Flour]
#22239416 - 09/15/15 12:37 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: SushiKing]
#22239437 - 09/15/15 12:41 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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i would shit the fucking bed if a scorpion was on my pillow or something. kinda glad i live in the midwest after reading this...
worst thing i've ever dealt with is a big ass spider in the bathroom.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: resonant111]
#22239489 - 09/15/15 01:15 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'd rather face a scorpion than a big ass spider any day.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22239595 - 09/15/15 02:45 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't mind where I reside in Canada. None of that crazy shit here.
Just some snow a couple months a year.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: sh4d0ws]
#22242598 - 09/15/15 06:14 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Scorpions arent that bad most species here arent much different from a bee sting. The most venemous species in the US is the Arizona Bark Scorpion, and those rarely cause deaths in healthy adults. Its the rattlesnakes that you need to watch out for!!
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: sh4d0ws]
#22245019 - 09/16/15 09:32 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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sh4d0ws said: I don't mind where I reside in Canada. None of that crazy shit here.
Just some snow a couple months a year.
Sounds boring as fuck. Where's your sense of adventure. Scorpions are nothing compared to what's down in the tropics. You wanna talk about trippy insects and dangerous poisons and diseases! Meanwhile Canada boy is drinking hot chocolate on his lazy boy watching the snow fall. Screw that shit, give me something badass, like scorpions in my bed!
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Almond Flour]
#22249187 - 09/17/15 01:18 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I live in phoenix and have a few (well more then a few) species of scorpion here. However the 2 common ones are giant desert hairy and then the bark scorpion which is pretty small and pretty venomous.
I rarely see em though. If you live near the edge of town where there is a lot of undeveloped land around you then you will probably see them here and there, or a lot if you blacklight around your yard at night. But generally they hide so well that you usually never notice that 50 of them are within 100 feet of you at any given time down here.
Most insecticides that get sprayed by complexes for pest control also stop scorpions so as long as your spraying is semi regular (once a year or so) they shouldnt ever be an issue inside your house. I've never once found one inside, only outside. I did however find, on multiple occasions, some big ass camel spiders inside my house. Them suckers are mean, mean looking, and have big ass fangs they rear up at you if you piss em off. I bet their bite hurts like all hell. They are pretty 'shy' though so unless you discover one and purposely piss it off, they generally just run like the wind to get away from you.
My kids go scorpion hunting with their grandparents at their house on weekends sometimes with portable black lights. They have a backyard that behind it is a canal and service road so they get 'extra wildlife'.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: mndfreeze]
#22249201 - 09/17/15 01:22 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Shroomslip]
#22249222 - 09/17/15 01:30 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I love scorpions! 
Hate spiders, but love scorpions!
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Shroomslip] 1
#22249251 - 09/17/15 01:41 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Those are all normal spider bites. Camel spiders are non-venomous.
(edit: forgot to post the link, doh)
http://www.livescience.com/40025-camel-spiders-facts.html
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: mndfreeze]
#22249275 - 09/17/15 01:49 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Why's everyone always gotta destroy my reality with facts and shit..
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Shroomslip]
#22249280 - 09/17/15 01:51 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Camel spiders are way to cool to need venom. They literally chew shit up with those big massive fangs then suck it up. Thats way more hardcore to get bit by then some pansy ass spider with venom. ;D
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: mndfreeze]
#22249285 - 09/17/15 01:54 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm not really afraid of spiders but I think if I came across one of those I'd shit a brick.
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Shroomslip] 2
#22286751 - 09/25/15 12:29 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I meant to post pics on here but I forgot. I went again tonight.























fluorescent lichen bonus!
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22288033 - 09/25/15 11:41 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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lol you can pick up a decent UV flashlight off amazon for like $6-$10
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22288073 - 09/25/15 11:50 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Apparently Hawaii only has one scorpion?
And it's not even native, it's an invasive species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometrus_maculatus
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22288117 - 09/25/15 12:02 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I never saw scorpions where I live (besides like maybe 5 or so in as many years that I've lived here) but I got a blacklight and found tons.
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22288152 - 09/25/15 12:11 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Also, there are a lot of minerals that fluoresce different colors, I havent found any yet but apparenly you can find them anywhere in the world
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Re: Blacklighting for Scorpions! [Re: Urist]
#22289295 - 09/25/15 04:54 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Our scorpions live in trees here.
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