This is what greeted us in the driveway the other night when we came home from a date night/youth group. This thing was about 4 inches long and is called a Giant Hairy Scorpion.
I know they live all over out here, but I've not seen one actually alive and scuttling about. The boys (Jeremy and Hunter) poked and prodded him and it was interesting that he was not easy to make upset. I'm not sure they ever got him to strike with his stinger. But I do NOT want to step on one of those, nor find it in my bed, nor on my floor, nor in my bathtub.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM SAM I AM!!!
Jeremy did tell me that he killed one once on the stairway, but I wasn't there to see it. So glad I wasn't but the fact that I know they can get in just really creeps me out!
um, ack.
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ReplyDeleteick. scorpions are no fun. our house in tx when i was little was built over a nest...so we saw them a lot. but never that big. i'd be doing scorpion-checks all the time :)
ReplyDeleteEeeeek! That thing is scaaaaarrrrrryyyy!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness!!!!! You are a brave, brave woman!
ReplyDeleteewwwwwwwwwwwwww not sure we have scorpions that big...but plenty other creepy crawlies!!! the joys of a bushy nature filled country!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSTAY out of the house i say!!! keeps me much more happy!!!
glad you havent seen any in the house....ewwwww
omg, I would have died!!!! eek. I am glad no one stepped on it as well.
ReplyDeleteYa I got lucky to miss the stairway incident as well. Ewwwwww gross!
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