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guntech59
My 9 yearold just came in the house telling that there was a scorpion out by the car. When I went to check it out, I found a crawfish about 3" long.[:D] It was all raised up with claws in the defense mode. Scared the crap out of him (my son).

After I explained to him what it was, we threw it back in the pond.

Had me worried for a minute. Especially since he held his hands up to show me that it was about a foot long!! He must get his measuring skills from his mother.........[[:0]
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [:D]
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  • He Dog
    http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/c_vittatus.htm

    Take a look at this if you live between Louisiana and New Mexico and as far North as Missouri or Illinois. This is the most widely distributed scorpion. Pics you can show your son, and imformation here as well. These are not considered to be of medical importance (not life threatening), but they are not a lot of fun either, with a sting said to be like a wasp sting.
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  • Oklahoma223
    Children are great. I have a 8 year old niece who is like my daughter. One day we were coming to town and a opossum was in the road. She says, look at that giant rat!!!
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  • David Nunn
    When I was a kid, my mother told me about crawdads, and described them as having a long body, two arms with pinchers, and a tail. She said that if you pick them up by grasping the body (carapace) between the thumb and forefinger, they can't reach back and pinch you.

    One day, I moved something and there on the floor was a crawdad. It had two arms with pinchers, a long body and a tail. Remembering what Mom said, I reached down to pick it up properly. Fortunately, Mom saw me and asked me what I was doing. I told her I had found a crawdad and was going to catch it. She quickly came to where I was, and she had a spatula in her hand for she was cooking. She scooped the creature up with the spatula, and deposited it onto the still-hot skillet, where it died.

    Then, she explained to me the difference between a crawdad and a scorpion. I had never seen either one up to that point.

    I am sure glad I didn't grab the scorpion.

    Many years later, one of the neighborhood kids caught a tiny crawdad in a puddle. When he got tired of it, he gave it to me, and I put it in my fish tank. The darn thing lived there for over a year, ate and went through several skin changes, and got really big. Then, one day it tried to shed its skin, and something went wrong. I found it dead with its skin half-moulted.
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  • wolfdog45
    That reminds me of when I was still living with my folks that i got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and when I was done I started to head towards the door and out cran a black Scorpion out from under the sink.
    It stood between me and the bathroom door so i took a glass and put it over it and a piece of paper under the glass and I kept it for a long time till it died from old age.
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  • RustyBones
    i used to have a couple emporers for pets. very interesting to watch one of them eat [xx(]
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  • Colt Super
    Don't like eight legged thingies that sting and want to eat me.

    Doug
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
    Don't like eight legged thingies that sting and want to eat me.

    Doug
    I don't like anything that tries to eat me...well, not all things.[;)]
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  • He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
    Don't like eight legged thingies that sting and want to eat me.

    Doug


    No problem then Doug, scorpions have 10 legs.
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  • dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
    Don't like eight legged thingies that sting and want to eat me.

    Doug


    No problem then Doug, scorpions have 10 legs.


    Maybe he hates only crippled scorpions. Don
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  • Dakota308
    i was out in Utah for a week digging and found two to bring back. gifts. forgot about em in my truck for over a month without food or water still living when i found em
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  • phillip
    Yall are making me hungry.I sure could eat me about 5 pounds with corn, potatos and a few cold draft beers.
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  • guntech59
    quote:Originally posted by phillip
    Yall are making me hungry.I sure could eat me about 5 pounds with corn, potatos and a few cold draft beers.


    You want me to ship it to you? It probably only weighs about 1/2 ounce right now though.[:D]

    He Dog, thanks! My son feels alot smarter than he did thim morning.
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