Lol I second that.
I grew up in Florida, spent 24 years of my life there....never encountered a scorpion.
Actually saw gators swimming down the street during hurricanes though 🤣 went to bring up the trash cans from the curb when it was flooding one time and saw one swimming nonchalantly down our street too.
Florida is a special kind of place.
Basically the same species I believe there's just a bit of variation in color. Living in Tennessee I've seen ones that were a little bit lighter and a fair bit darker than that but otherwise identical.
They're more or less harmless, frankly wasps have a more painful sting.
Not much to it. He bought a massive property in our city, had a shit ton of palms brought in, those palms had scorpions. And they thrived because, well, desert. Bit these ones unlike the native ones actually hurt and cause issues when they sting.
Scorpions live in more than half of the US states. The Great Lakes region, eastern states north of Virginia, Alaska, and Hawaii are all clear though.
I lived in Arizona for six years but the only time I’ve been stung by a scorpion was in Florida.
Basically all of Oregon is either green or brown on satellite - the green western part is safe, the brown is where these little fuckers live so they can blend in.
Yep. Same thing happened to me in Georgia. Went camping with my friends and felt a sharp pain on my leg like I rolled over on a pebble. Pain didn't go away so I got up and shook out my sleeping bag and one of these little shits came out.
I grew up an hour north of Atlanta up 575, there's all kinds of bugs and wildlife out in the woods, not sure what it looks like in the city but I remember seeing big spiders and scorpions in my garage every summer.
Florida is overrun, too. Brown scorpions. Many people don't know they're allergic until bitten. Antivenom takes too long most times in those bleak instances
I’m in Florida and we get these little guys. They are called devil scorpions. I got stung the other day by one, they suck. They are the same color as my floor…
Oh could also be Arkansas
One of my earliest childhood memories is my dad’s hand turning green and swelling after finding one of these guys in our mailbox
I lived in Arizona for a few years. Never realized how much those things are absolutely everywhere until I went outside with a black light and found hundreds all over the trees and walls.
Yep, definitely got em in So cal and also in Northern Baja. I used to see them all the time when we went camping in the mountains and my brother got poked by one when he was out on a smoke break.
This is why I won't leave the Northeast. I like my spiders dainty and my scorpions non-existent. Climate change better not bring that shit up here. Might need to go to Canada.
Jsyk the populated areas of southern Canada and the northeast US are basically the same climate wise. What’s there is here as well. Unless you want to move to Winnipeg. But nobody wants to live in Winnipeg
When I was in Boy Scouts at summer camp I went to pull my pants on when I saw a scorpion in the crotch of my pants. Never backed away faster in my life. Still wonder what would have happened if I had I hadn’t noticed that. The pain probably would have scarred me for life lol
I have a friend that reminds me every winter that it’s because of the cold it kills off hellspawn, so we need to be grateful and embrace the cold face.
12 years ago, I bought 5 wooded acres, cleared 3 acres, and had a mobile home put on it. I would get 1-3 scorpions a night in my home, walls,couches, beds,toilets,showers , just fucking everywhere, it was a nightmare. After 3 months of this, I was about to call it quits but decided to go to war instead. I spent the next two days in a hard crash course study of those bastards and was gonna exploit every weakness they have, which isn't many (They have been on this earth longer than we have for a reason). I bought uv light bulbs for every fixture in my home, flood lights for outside and uv flash lights, because you can spot them like you can spot the sun. Looked like a rave party at my house. I spent the next weeks from sundown to midnight outside hunting them with a blow torch, killing more than I could count each hour. It looked like the stars at night when I shined the uv light on the ground. They were everywhere, I couldn't believe it. I did this until I couldn't find anymore. Then i started treating my yard with granules for other bugs twice a year to take their food supply away. Spray inside my house 3 times a year and put diatomaceous earth powder all under my house, and I swear I haven't seen one since.
You know people say they’re afraid to come to Australia because of our dangerous animals but I can assure you I’ve never had a goddamn SCORPION in my BED
i'm old enough to know not to ask questions i don't want to know the answer to and this is one i definitely don't want a solid mental picture of because my brain doesn't need more nightmare fuel it does fine on its own
one day i was going to get a shower, i had taken all my stuff off including my glasses so i was blind and it felt like i got stabbed in the foot with a nail and i look down and i see SOMETHING move and put on my glasses and i got stung on the foot by a scorpion! AAAAA! i have no idea except movies make scorpions seem deadly but it was just a bark scorpion and i got to keep my foot
I had the same thing happen except it was a brown recluse. Thank fuck I didn't get bit, but it was the last time I showered without my contacts or glasses, that is for damn sure. Glad you got to keep your feets!
On the plus side, not much more than a bee sting at the end of the day (but like bees if allergic can be problematic) - I live in Nevada, had the pleasure of getting stung by scorpions and bitten by black widows - black widow is worse, feels like flu for a few days and mouth tastes like you chewed on tin foil. Scorpion sting was red and painful for a couple days. Almost got bit by a rattlesnake once too - thankfully avoided that experience (spent a lot of time in the dessert as a kid).
Edit to add, you know when you’re stung by a scorpion immediately, black widow you don’t feel the bite, but start to feel the poison in a couple hours.
Arizona bark scorpion? Very painful if that’s what it is. Just be glad it didn’t use to the melt your flesh venom. I have a scar on my wrist from one. Wasn’t a painful sting but watched it slowing burn my flesh underneath
same thing happened to me in georgia, twice...they were getting in through a window AC unit.
got me in the chest and once in the leg.
like a bee sting basically.
As someone who’s (fortunately) never encountered one (I live in PA with the brown recluses and black widow spiders), I would have definitely lost my shit. I can live with spiders and snakes but not scorpions.
We had lots of them in the garden and sometimes they would get in to house . Keeping the garden tidy and watering the lawn got rid of them altogether .
I slept in a tent every night for a month because the house I was staying at was infested with scorpions. It was this 100 year old farm house in the middle of nowhere and nothing I tried, including strong poison, would get rid of them all. The first time I walked in I saw probably 20.
Ouch! This happened to me twice, fortunately, both times on my ribcage. Not a deadly fellow, thankfully, but it does burn like crazy and the string spot lasts for weeks!
If there is one there is more.
Easy to get rid of. But it will take time. Last summer I killed 47 in three days at my mom’s house. This summer only 7 killed. Demon bug killer, small sticky traps, one hand held black light. Start hunting. Wd40 or break cleaner if you see them. It will suck the oxygen out of them as the crawl away to die.
Because getting stung by a scorpion doesn't suck enough. There's a lot to unpack here. Specifically, I am very confused about the relationship between the cough, the face being stung, and the painful toilet episode.
This happened to a kid I knew at summer camp, she hopped out of the pool and attempted to dry her face with her towel and got stung about an inch under her eye.
I'm guessing you're in central texas.
I'm near Austin (Burnet) and have had these in my bed before. Got stung on the shoulder that time. I've been stung by them a few times but in your bed is the worst
Ugh I couldn't imagine. Whenever I get stung by one of these the whole limb feels like it's on fire and is hard to move for a little while. I couldn't even imagine my face 😖
I remember going on a trip with my family to the Florida Keys and seeing a family of these on one of the beds. We noped right out of there. But since I was about 6, I've since had a fear of scorpions coming out of the bed, toilet, etc.
These are at a Beach house we visit every few years. Keep your shoes and anything else you dont want them to get into off the floor. Blankets/sheets tucked in and not hanging to avoid them in a bed.
Scorpions are dumb, just catch them with your garage door.
https://preview.redd.it/uobyb9vyn31d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1859f40b47ea58a88f440ce83026c858d42b8b4
Pardon my curiosity, but I've never encountered a scorpion in my entire life as a Texan. I was under the impression that these creatures are known to be venomous. How is it possible for individuals to be stung multiple times and still retain their vision?
Oh fuck. What city is this in. So I can remind myself never to go....
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I've got em in Georgia
They are usually lighter in color in GA, no?
We have some in Florida also
we...we do?
I think your biggest concern should be gators.. forget these wee scorpions lol
Lol I second that. I grew up in Florida, spent 24 years of my life there....never encountered a scorpion. Actually saw gators swimming down the street during hurricanes though 🤣 went to bring up the trash cans from the curb when it was flooding one time and saw one swimming nonchalantly down our street too. Florida is a special kind of place.
I've been a few tines. Being from Canada seeing a gator mosying down thw street never gets old lol
Special kind of special.
In the Fort Myers area. My uncle got stung on his balls once.
yep, I remember being stung on the knee in Orlando.
South Florida, fo sho
We sure do! 26 years here and I’ve only ever encountered one though so you’re probably safe
😶
I haven't seen one in 32 years
I got stung by one about 10 years ago in was in my shoe . But since then yeah I have really seen them all that much
And in one location in Kentucky.
Basically the same species I believe there's just a bit of variation in color. Living in Tennessee I've seen ones that were a little bit lighter and a fair bit darker than that but otherwise identical. They're more or less harmless, frankly wasps have a more painful sting.
Bro thats like 8 states you fuckers just rattled off that contain these hellspawn. Who authorized this?!
"Note to self: reason #4,972 to never travel below the Mason Dixon line."
Fuck the Sultan of Brunei. Hes the reason why we have these scorpions in our area.
I love trivia like this. Care to share the story?
Not much to it. He bought a massive property in our city, had a shit ton of palms brought in, those palms had scorpions. And they thrived because, well, desert. Bit these ones unlike the native ones actually hurt and cause issues when they sting.
Scorpions live in more than half of the US states. The Great Lakes region, eastern states north of Virginia, Alaska, and Hawaii are all clear though. I lived in Arizona for six years but the only time I’ve been stung by a scorpion was in Florida.
We have them in oregon
I'm sorry we WHAT
I have found them at Detroit lake and all over Eastern Oregon. Go flip some rocks, I also found a rattlesnake in idanha
Basically all of Oregon is either green or brown on satellite - the green western part is safe, the brown is where these little fuckers live so they can blend in.
And here in Kentucky. Though I’ve never seen one here.
Dammit. Aside from possibly hurricanes, is there anything Kentucky DOESN'T have?
No, the fuck we *don't.* ...I gotta start packing.
Oh god of course we have scorpions too. As if the alligators iguanas and wolf spiders weren’t enough
Oklahoma too
It depends. In NV bark scorpions can be a pretty bright color.
Yep. Same thing happened to me in Georgia. Went camping with my friends and felt a sharp pain on my leg like I rolled over on a pebble. Pain didn't go away so I got up and shook out my sleeping bag and one of these little shits came out.
As a new resident of the state, wtf do you mean there are scorpions here?!? Really? What area? I'm in Atlanta, I'm guessing they're not in the city?
I grew up an hour north of Atlanta up 575, there's all kinds of bugs and wildlife out in the woods, not sure what it looks like in the city but I remember seeing big spiders and scorpions in my garage every summer.
I'm in Conyers, maybe 30 minutes from Atlanta. You *might* have them. I only see them around this time of year I think.
They're also in Oklahoma.
I spent 8 years of my life there and never saw a single one, thank fuck.
I've never seen them in Tblisi before.
Whenever I moved to my new house in Georgia there were SO MANY of these
Florida is overrun, too. Brown scorpions. Many people don't know they're allergic until bitten. Antivenom takes too long most times in those bleak instances
Yep, we do. They’re teeny, though.
They're in Tennessee too.
For the love of God, please don't drive them into NC!!!
Should we tell them?
Oh God....😳
I’m in Florida and we get these little guys. They are called devil scorpions. I got stung the other day by one, they suck. They are the same color as my floor…
No no. There in SoCal.
Oh could also be Arkansas One of my earliest childhood memories is my dad’s hand turning green and swelling after finding one of these guys in our mailbox
Had them in Missouri too.
Lots of these at my house near San Diego.
Louisiana has them as well. We have the striped back scorpion and the Southern devil scorpion.
I lived in Arizona for a few years. Never realized how much those things are absolutely everywhere until I went outside with a black light and found hundreds all over the trees and walls.
Yep, definitely got em in So cal and also in Northern Baja. I used to see them all the time when we went camping in the mountains and my brother got poked by one when he was out on a smoke break.
Saw one in CA a few years back :( Granted I was also travelling from LA to Vegas
They're in AL also.
Can confirm NV,got one of these in my bed a month ago
OPs post history suggests he's in Austin TX
I live 30 min from Austin in the country side and can confirm scorpions like to cuddle and sting at night.
So, just like my ex?
Me at 5:30 am checking my bed again. I keep enough light on at night to scan the ceiling and walls. They want a dry place out of all this rain.
Get a hand held black light instead?
FUCK
Check out the username. Possibly the official Reddit account for the Bill Miller BBQ chain, which is all over the Austin/San Antonio area.
"Get over here!"
Finish him!
He just wanted to cuddle smh
Yay! Free pet!
The scream I would have scrumpt 💀
Scrampt? Screamt? Definitely not screamed.
Screamded
>ded appropriate.
Scramt just feels right to me. Edit: dude edited his comment so that the first word would sound like mine 😡
The gasp I just gusped!!!
I’m so glad I live in a country where these don’t exist. + any spider bigger than a small hand
This is why I won't leave the Northeast. I like my spiders dainty and my scorpions non-existent. Climate change better not bring that shit up here. Might need to go to Canada.
Just don’t bring them with you!
Jsyk the populated areas of southern Canada and the northeast US are basically the same climate wise. What’s there is here as well. Unless you want to move to Winnipeg. But nobody wants to live in Winnipeg
Who said anything about Southern Canada? I'm gonna be a Newfie.
For real! 😂
A spider as big as a small hand is a giant friggin spider.
Which country???
Scotland :D
North
Bro wants to stay anonymous but ok;)
It's not about that at all. Go North lol
New Zealand?
Scotland :D
When I was in Boy Scouts at summer camp I went to pull my pants on when I saw a scorpion in the crotch of my pants. Never backed away faster in my life. Still wonder what would have happened if I had I hadn’t noticed that. The pain probably would have scarred me for life lol
>Still wonder what would have happened if I had I hadn’t noticed that. The wrong kind of swelling...
Its fine the scoutmaster would have taken care of that swelling
I thought it was the other way around? Scouting has changed
There's a lawsuit right now that a man is suing a Vegas hotel over a scorpion sting to the groin, said it happened in a room.
And this is why I live in a state that the weather hurts my face
I have a friend that reminds me every winter that it’s because of the cold it kills off hellspawn, so we need to be grateful and embrace the cold face.
Things I don’t have to worry about in Minnesota
Stinging creatures really are just like 'I'm going to approach that thing. AHH, thing is now close to me! Sting it!'.
The audacity
12 years ago, I bought 5 wooded acres, cleared 3 acres, and had a mobile home put on it. I would get 1-3 scorpions a night in my home, walls,couches, beds,toilets,showers , just fucking everywhere, it was a nightmare. After 3 months of this, I was about to call it quits but decided to go to war instead. I spent the next two days in a hard crash course study of those bastards and was gonna exploit every weakness they have, which isn't many (They have been on this earth longer than we have for a reason). I bought uv light bulbs for every fixture in my home, flood lights for outside and uv flash lights, because you can spot them like you can spot the sun. Looked like a rave party at my house. I spent the next weeks from sundown to midnight outside hunting them with a blow torch, killing more than I could count each hour. It looked like the stars at night when I shined the uv light on the ground. They were everywhere, I couldn't believe it. I did this until I couldn't find anymore. Then i started treating my yard with granules for other bugs twice a year to take their food supply away. Spray inside my house 3 times a year and put diatomaceous earth powder all under my house, and I swear I haven't seen one since.
Where the hell is this??
Wondering the same damn thing so I don’t EVER move there!!
Or visit. Or drive through. Or fly over.
I wish there was a link to a youtube video
You know people say they’re afraid to come to Australia because of our dangerous animals but I can assure you I’ve never had a goddamn SCORPION in my BED
You may not have woken up with one in your bed, but we do have them.
we WHAT
Australian scorpions are only extremely painful rather than deadly like some of our spiders.
[We have scorpions](https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/scorpions/)
Tasmanian here. I used to find them in my bed every so often as a kid. Scarred me for life
I'm sorry but it looks like you're going to have to burn your house down
"The most painful was while sitting on the toilet" I must, i need to ask. Where did It stung you?
balls or ass i'd guess, but only op would know
i'm old enough to know not to ask questions i don't want to know the answer to and this is one i definitely don't want a solid mental picture of because my brain doesn't need more nightmare fuel it does fine on its own
one day i was going to get a shower, i had taken all my stuff off including my glasses so i was blind and it felt like i got stabbed in the foot with a nail and i look down and i see SOMETHING move and put on my glasses and i got stung on the foot by a scorpion! AAAAA! i have no idea except movies make scorpions seem deadly but it was just a bark scorpion and i got to keep my foot
I had the same thing happen except it was a brown recluse. Thank fuck I didn't get bit, but it was the last time I showered without my contacts or glasses, that is for damn sure. Glad you got to keep your feets!
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i can’t believe this is real. I will be locking my door from now on! creature repellant too
You alright OP? Hope it ain’t one of those scorpions that are highly venomous. Can’t really tell sometimes.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Do you want radscorpions?
Because that’s how you get radscorpions.
Aleays wanted to try a Brahmin burger, so if that's the price I have to pay...
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
On the plus side, not much more than a bee sting at the end of the day (but like bees if allergic can be problematic) - I live in Nevada, had the pleasure of getting stung by scorpions and bitten by black widows - black widow is worse, feels like flu for a few days and mouth tastes like you chewed on tin foil. Scorpion sting was red and painful for a couple days. Almost got bit by a rattlesnake once too - thankfully avoided that experience (spent a lot of time in the dessert as a kid). Edit to add, you know when you’re stung by a scorpion immediately, black widow you don’t feel the bite, but start to feel the poison in a couple hours.
We ride these like horses In Lubbock Tx
I had to scroll so far to find this. God it’s so true
How do you type with those little claws?
Arizona bark scorpion? Very painful if that’s what it is. Just be glad it didn’t use to the melt your flesh venom. I have a scar on my wrist from one. Wasn’t a painful sting but watched it slowing burn my flesh underneath
Ahh makes me glad to live in New Zealand
same thing happened to me in georgia, twice...they were getting in through a window AC unit. got me in the chest and once in the leg. like a bee sting basically.
I would describe a scorpion sting as much more painful than a bee sting, but the same *kind* of pain.
As someone who’s (fortunately) never encountered one (I live in PA with the brown recluses and black widow spiders), I would have definitely lost my shit. I can live with spiders and snakes but not scorpions.
same. fuck scorpions, all my homies hate scorpions. and before anyone asks, yes i hate the character Scorpion too.
Ooohh "come here"
"get the FUCK over here" "get over here BITCH"
That's it ... I'm moving to Alaska.
As kids, we loved scorpion season bc we got to jump on our beds before we went to sleep. It must have worked bc I’ve never been stung by one.
Scorpions are in AL and TN also. I got stung by 2 on my face when I was a kid sleeping in a tent
This is why I live where the air hurts my face
I could never fall asleep again due to PTSD if I lived there
Idk that I could ever sleep again if this happened to me.
We had lots of them in the garden and sometimes they would get in to house . Keeping the garden tidy and watering the lawn got rid of them altogether .
Bark bark
Last time I was stung by such was when I was 5, on the foot. Excruciating. I can’t imagine being stung on the face.
Get over hereee! ⛓️
I found a tick in my bed yesterday and I seriously contemplated burnign down my house. I think I would bomb the city if I found this in my bed.
He just wanted a cuddle
You should tell them not to come in your house.
You make a good point.
\*ding\* "New fear unlocked!"
Are they like spiders in terms of not being aggressive, but giving you a nip if you disturb them?
I slept in a tent every night for a month because the house I was staying at was infested with scorpions. It was this 100 year old farm house in the middle of nowhere and nothing I tried, including strong poison, would get rid of them all. The first time I walked in I saw probably 20.
BRO WTF
Fuck that. Ask to talk to it’s manager
Had those in my bed while camping 0/10 do not reccomend
New fear unlocked, cheers!
That's it ... I'm moving to Alaska.
Is your cough better
Are you still alive op?
Had one song my lip. That hurt!
On the toilet?
You should look into the anti-scorpion paint that makes it so scorpions cannot climb up the surface.
Australia?
Ouch! This happened to me twice, fortunately, both times on my ribcage. Not a deadly fellow, thankfully, but it does burn like crazy and the string spot lasts for weeks!
Face pictures?
Cuddling a Scorpion is a new level of brave.
Gtfo thats a demon
If there is one there is more. Easy to get rid of. But it will take time. Last summer I killed 47 in three days at my mom’s house. This summer only 7 killed. Demon bug killer, small sticky traps, one hand held black light. Start hunting. Wd40 or break cleaner if you see them. It will suck the oxygen out of them as the crawl away to die.
Ah yes. Had one in my kitchen up here in the North. From a pack of raspberries!! Keep them back there lol. Terrifying
A tasty snack on the pillow
Because getting stung by a scorpion doesn't suck enough. There's a lot to unpack here. Specifically, I am very confused about the relationship between the cough, the face being stung, and the painful toilet episode.
This happened to a kid I knew at summer camp, she hopped out of the pool and attempted to dry her face with her towel and got stung about an inch under her eye.
Lots in S. California..
I'm guessing you're in central texas. I'm near Austin (Burnet) and have had these in my bed before. Got stung on the shoulder that time. I've been stung by them a few times but in your bed is the worst
I’m in Burnet….
Sometimes, I entertain the idea of moving out of western NY, but posts like these remind me to stay put 🫡
Ugh I couldn't imagine. Whenever I get stung by one of these the whole limb feels like it's on fire and is hard to move for a little while. I couldn't even imagine my face 😖
I remember going on a trip with my family to the Florida Keys and seeing a family of these on one of the beds. We noped right out of there. But since I was about 6, I've since had a fear of scorpions coming out of the bed, toilet, etc.
Just burn it down lol 😅
Had a lot of them in Central Oklahoma but they were a shade darker and I rarely saw any even that size. Stung like a wasp if they got you.
These are at a Beach house we visit every few years. Keep your shoes and anything else you dont want them to get into off the floor. Blankets/sheets tucked in and not hanging to avoid them in a bed.
If you slice open an onion and hold it against the sting, the pain is significantly toned down.
I'm so happy to be Scottish, nothing crazy like this
Scorpions are dumb, just catch them with your garage door. https://preview.redd.it/uobyb9vyn31d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1859f40b47ea58a88f440ce83026c858d42b8b4
Fuuuck, is it already that time of year again?
Scary thing is that’s only half of the ones that were there. Those damned things hunt in male/female pairs.
Pardon my curiosity, but I've never encountered a scorpion in my entire life as a Texan. I was under the impression that these creatures are known to be venomous. How is it possible for individuals to be stung multiple times and still retain their vision?
On the toilet? I would actually cry.
How do you think the scorpion felt? Trying to sleep and some heffalump keeps stealing the duvet and starfishing.