Never seen one of these guys in MO before...can't say I'd be happy to see many more either. Didn't get stung but they are wicked fast little suckers.
Yeah it was pretty darn neat, I must say. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was like, "WTF (fudge)?! Nah...it can't be...whoa, yes it is!!" SO like any immature grown man, I had to get a stick and play with it, lol. Surprisingly enough, it really didn't want to sting at all. It was mostly just interested in getting away and out of the hot sun. It didn't sting until it got pinched with a stick and then it went batsh** crazy. Read that they sting about like a honey bee but I don't want to find out.
Lol....no...just no. Best thing about this area is that encounters with rattlers are even more odd than scorpions. We have isolated pockets locally where you can find timber rattlers, some areas where there are massasaugas, some that have Copperheads and some that have Cottonmouths. An hour south, they can all be found with some regularity. The closest area with any of the three is about 20 miles away. I've never found any of the three here at home. A neighbor claims he killed a big copperhead in his chicken house back in the late 1980's, 3/4's of a mile from my house. I ran over a massasauga with a dozer back in the early 2000's up by Greely KS, about 30 miles from here.
/shivers. Some things I don't want to ever encounter. A guy in southeast PA got killed by a rattler this past weekend - bit at camp and died on the way to the hospital (after they had to life flight him). I said, if those start getting more common I am done hunting. I don't do snakes. At all.
Glad I'm not seeing those around here. Spiders are bad enough. Wow. Didn't hear about that. It's sad. Looked it up. He was bit around a campfire around midnight. Even more strange.
I know...it's not common around here. The hospital he went to didn't have the right anti-venom so they had to life flight him and he didn't make it. That'd be the last thing I'd expect at midnight! (Then you wonder though if it would have got into a tent otherwise).
Alaska sounds better and better each day... no snakes and none of those horrid bugs. Sure the mosquitos are bigger than birds and come in black waves similar to one's imagination of a black plague and bears the size of vending machines roam the woods... but we don't have snakes!
When I worked for an Italian company I would go over there to Tuscany and stay in these older houses at the winery. The first time I went back to go to bed and there was a scorpion on the wall. I killed that one but needless to say I didn't sleep well that night. Turns out whatever species is over there is only as harmful as a bee if it stings you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
No scorpions here. Only one slightly poisonous, mild mannered snake, the Massasauga rattlesnake. It only gets 2-3 feet long and is quite non-aggressive. They are protected in this state. My husband grew up in the Southern Missouri Ozarks. He says scorpions are not uncommon there. It's good to shake out your boots in the morning just in case. Also lots of poisonous snakes there, he says, Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, and Moccasins.
