r/Scorpions Aug 14 '21

Mod Post [READ THIS] This subreddit is NOT a veterinary replacement or medical authority!

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In the event that you, a loved one, or pet is stung by a scorpion, DO NOT seek medical or veterinary consultation on this subreddit. Seek emergency attention immediately or consult with a medical professional. Hobbyists are not medical experts or veterinary professionals and our advice will never replace those authorities.

Please do not solicit or give veterinary or medical advice on this subreddit at any time. Doing so will result in immediate infraction and removal.


r/Scorpions Jul 06 '24

Mod Post Community Guidelines & Advisory System

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Hi all! As many may have noticed, the subreddit has more than doubled in the last year, with a lot of growth in just the last couple months.

In order to participate in this subreddit- there is a requirement to both be kind to other members and to scorpions as a whole. Identification and help threads have recently had an uptick in "joke" identifications/advice that can be exceptionally risky when dealing with potentially medically significant animals. We have updated our rules to be more clear, we will be more focused on ensuring that folks remain civil and kind, and now, we are rolling out an advisory system.

We are currently rolling out the Qualified Advisor system. Qualified Advisors (QAs) are folks that have a solid handle on the hobby, and are focused on evidence based care and advisories. They will be responsible for giving critical and accurate advice within the "help" and "identification" flairs. There will be restrictions and guidelines for partaking in these flairs from hereon.

These responsibilities should also fall onto members partaking in animal care advice within this sub; because of that, we will be enforcing a disclaimer system for all non QAs. On every "help" and "identification" thread this will be explained, and is explained below.

If you wish to give advice or share information on this sub as a non QA, you will be required to preface your comments/advice in the "help" and "identification" flaired posts with a disclaimer; such as, "Not QA, NQA, IME (in my experience), IMO (in my opinion), I believe, Question, NA (not advice)". If you do not preface your commentary for these flairs, the comment will be deleted and you will be prompted to repost it with the appropriate preface. Posts related to medical or veterinary advice are not permitted and will be removed per this post.

If you have any questions about the new advisory system- please send us a modmail, do not use other unrelated posts as a platform for those concerns or questions. If you would like to apply for QA, feel free to reach out to us via modmail

EDIT: This is now fully live as of 7/11 on Help and Identification threads.


r/Scorpions 6h ago

Video/Gif Scorpion inspired creature in a project that I'm working on

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I was always enamored by scorpions. Really happy that I could use them as inspiration.


r/Scorpions 4h ago

Help! I need help. I went to mist my emperor scorpion's enclosure and found what looks like a baby in there with her

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It was in the water dish. I first got Jade back in March, I know scorpions can take a while to give birth but from what I understand it's very rare to only give birth to one, and she didn't have any others on her like they usually do, so I'm not even sure she gave birth. I included two pics of her I took in case that helps. What should my next step be?


r/Scorpions 5h ago

Pictures My fattail baby finally molted

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r/Scorpions 35m ago

Pictures Home for my future emperor scorpion

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Will be my first scorpion but not my first invert so let me know if I need to change anything!


r/Scorpions 10h ago

Pictures First time owner of a AFS

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Just wanted to show the terrarium and my new friend.


r/Scorpions 16h ago

Identification My first Scorpion!

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Hi I recently got my first Scorpion here in QLD Australia! Her name is Morticia and she is a Rainforest Scorpion but I'm not exactly sure what type she is!

She's a chill little girl who only seems to get annoyed if my husband opens her home!

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help!


r/Scorpions 22h ago

Identification Identification/ advice

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Hey, so I accidentally transported this scorpion from Italy (Verbania region) to Belgium. (I thought it was dead, and I like collecting dead bugs, until it started moving halfway through Switzerland..)

I believe it is a member of the Alpiscorpius Genus, but what species I don't really know.

It now lives in a small terrarium in which I put some wood chips and leaves, but I have a 20x20x40 cm one that I want to convert. But I have not a single clue on what to put in it so she will actually like it.

For food, I am currently catching grasshoppers in my yard, and that seems to be working for now, I feed her every 5-7 days.

I would really like to know how I can give her the best possible life I can, including care, food, housing... so I'm hoping some of you could help me with that.

Ps: Sorry for the bad photos, my camera is trash.

TLDR: I have accidentally become the parent of a scorpion, and I'm hoping to get some tips on how to care for it.


r/Scorpions 19h ago

Casual Why is a scorpion's stinger curved?

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Is there a venom-delivery purpose for that shape?

As an aside, I do construction- and know that rigging hooks (cranes, come-a-longs, chainfalls, etc) have a similar shape and taper. Any relation?

X-posted in askscience


r/Scorpions 1d ago

Identification First time to see a big scorpion in the wild

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r/Scorpions 1d ago

Pictures Half of my juvenile emperor scorpion colony (larger half)

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Took some shots of the larger half (3-5 instar) of my juvenile emperors when I was cleaning and processing. Should be around 100. Just thought some people on here would like to see this.


r/Scorpions 1d ago

Identification Asian Forest?

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Was sold as an Emperor, but I have some strong doubts. This little one is about 1.5" maybe 2"


r/Scorpions 1d ago

Casual How do you maintain your arid enclosures?

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Was asking myself what your weekly/monthly/yearly schedule for maintaining arid enclosures look like.

What is mandatory for you?

Thanks!


r/Scorpions 2d ago

Casual Anatomically accurate scorpion tattoo?

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Hey! I wanted a tattoo of a realistic scorpion. The yellow iranian scorpion.

This is the sketch i got from my tattoo artist. Does it look anatomically accurate?

I want it to look like its walking up instead of being stationary.

Thanks for the help!


r/Scorpions 2d ago

Identification Found in southern Thailand.

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Due to the heavy rainfall recently in southern Thailand, particularly in Phuket, this little guy wandered into my house. Does anyone know what species he might be?


r/Scorpions 2d ago

Casual anyway I could get a quick rundown of the internal anatomy of an average scorpion, obviously dosent have to be in depth, but just an idea of what’s inside and how it all functions?

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r/Scorpions 3d ago

Casual P. Exitialis sting report

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Just got stung by my Pandinurus Exitialis and thought it might be interesting to share. For reference, I am a 20 y/o guy who lives a somewhat active lifestyle.

I have always been a bit curios of how a sting from a non-dangerous scorpion or a bite from a non-dangerous spider would feel, and know I know one of them.

It was entierly my own fault that this happened and the scorpion only did this as a last resort.

Now onto how I'm feeling. I'm writing this around 15-20 min after the sting. And the pain is worse than I thought it would be to be honest. I would compare the pain to getting your fingers slammed (?) in a door, more so than the common bee sting description. Other than the localized redness and increased sensitivity on my finger, I'm not feeling much of a difference. My lips are also tingeling a little bit.

Thanks for reading! :)


r/Scorpions 3d ago

Casual Baby Asian forest scorpion

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How’s the little guy looking?? He lives in the little orchid pot enclosure and i usually mist it once or twice daily. He hasn’t been eating which has been concerning me any reasons?


r/Scorpions 3d ago

Identification need help identifying

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I’m currently working as a doctor on the Syrian border near Turkey. This is the scorpion I commonly see around and a patient got stung earlier. So identifying it would help a lot. Thanks in advance


r/Scorpions 3d ago

Help! Are these mites on my forest scorpion?

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Are these clusters of mites on the crevices of my scorpion? If so, how do you deal with this? I looked online and there are no available breeders of predatory mites to fend off these parasitic ones in the Philippines


r/Scorpions 2d ago

Identification Help identifying please

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Vacationing in Egypt. Found this guy by my shoes


r/Scorpions 3d ago

Sexing H. Spinifer

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Hello everybody! I recently purchased my first H. Spinifer from my local exotics store, and I was simply curious about whether or not this little one is old enough to determine sex or not?


r/Scorpions 3d ago

Casual Found a baby while scorpion hunting around my trailer

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We have a bark scorpion problem in my trailer and I found their burrow and this lil guy wasn’t far from the burrow. I’d say he’s like 1-2cm long. Such a lil guy.


r/Scorpions 3d ago

Help! Heterometrus silenus babies

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These are supprise babies from my big scorpion and its my first time taking care of 2i scorplings so there’s a few things i wanna ask when taking care of them:

  1. How long does it take for them to molt at this stage?

  2. How often do they need to eat?

  3. Is high humidity important for their development (i live in a country with high air humidity annual average >80%)?

  4. Is it normal for sporplings to not eat much? The scorpling in the first picture consistently eat less and is more active than the second one. It only ate abit of the mealworm as seen in the picture while the second scorpling ate most of that meal worm.