Anyone that knows Chandler Martin knows there are two things he just cannot handle: 1. Snakes 2. Scorpions. Considering we have many of both those critters around here it is a wonder he goes outside. He didn't need to go outside to run into his first scorpion in the five years we have lived here. I found this 2" scorpion crawling up our wall the other day and i'll admit, came unglued. Chandler stepped up to the plate and smashed it so hard i thought he was going to put a hole in the wall! (I think it was somewhat therapudic for him.) Fortunately have our exterminator on speed dial. Unfortunately there is no "scorpion killer" that is worth a damn. The only thing you can do is get rid of their food - insects. We have the house sprayed monthly for bugs so he must have just woken up from his winter's nap and gotten lost (at least that is what i keep telling myself). We both had terrible nightmares the following night of scorpion attacks so after some research we learned that there are nautral predators of the scorpion you can keep around. Our shopping list is as follows: 4 woodpeckers, 2 cats, 6 bats, 1 blue tounge lizard (can't hurt), 2 roadrunners and a mongoose (for good measure).
3 comments:
that's just awful. I'm glad we don't have scorpions here, but ever since I found that black widow when you were visiting, I feel like I see them everywhere.
you were taking photos of the thing? we would have believed you without the visual. does it have a family nearby?
at least we know what to get you for Christmas!
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