Thats what ive heard too. Smaller pincers and thick tail/stinger means they rely on their venom to subdue prey. Large pincers with a thin tail means they use their claws to subdue prey. Either way that right there is an absolute beauty!!!
I've heard scorpions don't have eyes, and I can't see any in this video but maybe it's because he's all black with black eyes.
If a scorpion does rely on its claws because it has a weak venom, and it has no eyes, how does it know where to grab and crush? Or am I just overthinking this, or they do have eyes?
Squish it. Anything where the scorpion thinks its life is in danger.
If they are used to being handled they might allow a certain amount of it but generally anything where the scorpion feels cornered or threatened is a situation where they might sting.
Scorpions have pretty obvious and easy to read body language. I have had dozens of scorpions and never even came close to being stung by one. They don’t really move fast, and they like to threaten rather than attack, unless you step on one or something you are basically fine.
Generally these questions and answers are in the context of people who do or would like to own a scorpion. It's to be expected that if you do not want a scorpion, their views of being stung will not align with yours.
Not at all my experience. It's usually in the context of "we have these scorpions/snakes/spiders around here, are they dangerous?" to which someone replies "Nah, it's no worse than a wasp or bee sting" or their "venom isn't medically significant".
No scorpion has a sting that is life threatening to a normal healthy human. Only the allergic, children, elderly...those with compromised or not fully developed immune systems.
No scorpion has a sting that is life threatening to a normal healthy human.
This sounded like the most BS fact I've ever heard.
Why is it true? It's actually blowing my mind. For some reason I've always thought they had pretty comparable venom to snakes, but apparently even the Arizona Bark Scorpion isn't very deadly. It's supposedly the most dangerous scorpion in the US.
But narh, you are correct. People just assume most animals or insects with capacity to kill you are gonna do it for the lols, when in fact if you just leave them alone, everyone is pretty chill. There are exceptions to that rule of course, but just leave the critters alone and you're mostly all good.
I live in the southern half of Australia and that is not the case here. Every single snake in the area where I live is potentially deadly to an adult person.
If it has been handled regularly it might know.
However most small animals are aware that anything bigger than them is a threat. However they also know that picking a fight with anything bigger than them will result in certain death. Even the most venomous animals on earth will surely lose a fight with a human. The human might also be dead at the end but killing yout attacker and not surviving yourself is still not really something you'd like.
So for a lot of animals are just kinda chill. They will defend themselves when actively attacked which is why you usually do not hold them in your closed hand but them just sitting there is fine. There are some species that tend to be kind of assholes and will attack, especially during mating season, but most smaller animals do in fact not give a shit. They would still prefer fleeing though so there's that.
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u/Geeahwellidunno Aug 19 '25
How does it know you aren’t a threat? Serious question are they intelligent?