The little one looks like what we call hellgrammites. Found under rocks in riffles. Great trout bait when they won’t take anything. Big the adults are a fly, nothing like your Asian friend
Stik: I was going to say the same thing!
Sorry guys I didn’t buy the scorpion - it would have been more OT:
Cats are great for keeping scorpions at bay,imune to the sting.
This is as close as I could do for that… Went out scorpion hunting with the black light tonite, since another one turned up dead in the yard on Monday. Found this guy running around!
A little smaller than the one I killed the other day. I chased this one out of the yard…
Looks like all the porch and security lights are going to be replaced with ultraviolet[*-)]
That’s the way we used to hunt them, back in the day. I used to sell them to the science lab at ASU for my beer money (of course I was in high school back then) but hey, you do what you must . . .! It was good money too.
That is so COOL Stik, glad they are in your back ysrd and not mine lol. Exactly the look I was talking about…now watch yer back, a seven foot beast with really sharp objects is watching.
I had better get myself a good sword then…
Yikes,
Maybe you should “take off and nuke the site from orbit - it’s the only way to be sure”
And if the 7-footer looks like Dwayne Johnson, run - you’re in a terrible movie!
Same thing if you hear someone whisper “anytime”.
In South East Asia we would call those things rice bugs. They were quite popular with the locals, but ours had a long tooth thaqt sat dead center. One night on patrol in my jeep I saw a base defense stopped near teh perimeter fence and the guys were walking arouind looking for something. As it turned out the G.I. driver was collection rice bugs to take downtown after he got off shift. He would use them as barter to pick up a woman. Evidently they were used as a seasoning for certain dishes and not easily found in town. I have seen my local marine associates sometimes will just snap the heads off and suck out the rest.
I have seen them in Arkansas near the rice patties between the base and Little ROck itself and everyonce in a while I might find one in the parking lot outside where I used to work. But its only been about three in almost 20 years.
venomous. Not poisonous.
My bug man told me that this type is the giant desert hairy scorpion. Looked it up and they are the largest in North America. But, their venom is only akin to that of the common honey bee, with the commensurate pain and danger. Sure makes me feel a bit easier about these critters.
i don’t remember where I heard it, but I do remem hearing that if you are gonna get stung by a scorpion, you want to be stung by a big one, because the bigger they are, the less potent the venom, the smaller they are the more potent the venom…
but, the point of my comment still stands; venomous, not poisonous. Poisonous is if the toxin is ingested (or somehow passively spread), and venomous is when the toxin is injected…
Had a Black Widow bite me on my left wrist while I was asleep two weeks ago. Didn’t wake me at the time and woke up feeling very light headed like I’d had too much to drink. Didn’t notice the bite till my wrist started itching and found the bite along with claw scratches meaning one of my cats must have taken care of the visitor during the night. Took ibuprofen and that helped with the symptoms from the venom. After two days I felt back to normal not something I want to experience again. Second Black Widow I’ve had in the house this year might have to have a talk with my two cats.
You sure it was a widow? Usually the bite causes some severe problems with the skin and its neuraltoxin properties that can last for some time. It could have been a more common house spider or a wolf or recluse.Here we have two types of widow spiders, the black which is heavily armored and a bit slow and the brown or red which is larger and faster, both with the hourglass marking.
Yes it was a Black Widow the bite pattern was a match for a widow. A couple of days later I did find a widows web in the bedroom. Prior to that I’ve already found two widows in the home most likely thanks to all the rain Arizona got this year which exploded the insect population. The venom can affect people very little or very severely if you are young or old hence why my symptoms were very mild.
Wasn’t a Wolf Spider the bite mark was not a match. Not a Brown Recluse either my wife had one bite her on the back at the beginning of April this year and I know exactly how the bite looks now.
Strange - living in CA we have widows a pleanty. They aren’t the type of spider to go on walk about. They sit in dark corners and have very messy webs. I take care when moving boxes etc in the garage. After 57 years I’ve never seen a widow in the house.
I have never seen a black widow web in any living spaces either. They are not aggressive, and avoid any and all contact with other animals, including humans. The only time people get bitten is through accidental contact, such as putting on an article of clothing that has been in an isolated area…or when doing work in those isolated areas and getting into accidental contact with one. I have been bitten by one while working in the crawlspace under my mother’s house, fixing a pipe which was up in the floor joists. I knocked it loose from its nest without knowing it was there and it fell inside my shirt. Its a pretty powerful neurotoxin in their bite, and it is almost unheard of for anybody to have just a mild reaction. In my case, it was an intense pain from muscle spasms all the way up my left arm into my chest. Felt like my arm was being crushed in a vise. I also had a lot of bleeding under the skin around the bite that caused a HUGE, dark blue-black, circular patch around the bite. That, fortunately, was only temporary due to the small amount of hemotoxin that is also in their venom.