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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Bark scorpions are the smallest and most dangerous.

1) if they crawl up a wall or you see them on your
ceiling; they 'are' bark scorpions.

2) Buy a "blacklight". scorpions glow in the dark.

#)If you have a true scorpion ploblem,; get a cat!
I won't try to explain; but talk to any long-time
resident of the desert.....bobford


--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> One price paid to be two blocks from a mountain
> preserve is  
> scorpions. Over the three years we have had this
> Phoenix house I have  
> squished perhaps a hundred of them. While tuning up
> the fountain out  
> front yesterday I was stung by a little scorpion,
> perhaps three- 
> quarters of an inch long. Chris is fearful of the
> little nasties so I  
> have long told her that the sting is about like a
> bee sting,  
> certainly no worse than the paper wasps at
> Heartwood. Wrong.
> 
> Serious discomfort traveled from the forefinger tip
> sting site up the  
> finger, into the adjoining knuckle, up the hand and
> the arm. It  
> stopped before the elbow. This got my attention
> sufficiently to do a  
> bit of Googling. I was relieved to read that no one
> here has died  
> from such a sting in the last forty years. The guy
> that nailed me is  
> called the Bark Scorpion and is considered dangerous
> to small  
> children and old people.
> 
> This morning, about eighteen hours later, the end of
> the finger is  
> numb and is making typing awkward. So I'll stop.
> 
> Bottom line: take scorpions seriously.
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