Morning Visitor

[Donde]

(No humans or scorpions were harmed in this photoshoot)

 

[Jeff G]

Nice shot, looks like he means business!

 

[Jeff15]

Horrible looking creature.......

 

[Gary A.]

Mano-y-Mano with a Scorpion just brings up such primal instincts.

 

[Donde]

He was ready to nail me for sure but didn't get the chance.

 

[davholla]

They are not all that dangerous a friend of my brother in law was stung 3 times in one day (by different scorpions) and was not that affected.
There is one type which is quite poisonous - no idea if yours is or not.
This is a poisonous one, I got it id at Arcnologos de Colombia facebook group
IMG_7198Scorpion by davholla2002, on Flickr

 

[jcdeboever]

Wow, they look cool but one of the positive reasons for living in Michigan, none of them things.

 

[BrentC]

Very cool. One of our guides on my Portugal vacation was a Scorpion expert and his main study so we talked a lot about them. Most scorpions are harmless to humans, very few can really harm us. The smaller scorpions (5-10cm I believe he said) have the more harmful venom because they don't have big pincers to hold down prey. The large scorpions with larger claws are less venomous.

 

[zombiesniper]

Very cool.

Harmful or not. I'm glad I live in an area that I never have to worry about shaking one of those out of my sleeping bag. lol

 

[Donde]

Dave I had an empleada who said she was stung, I don't know by which one but she said she had searing pain for twenty fours.

 

[Lisa Chapman]

Man they look so cool! So interesting. Very nice shot.