The Rest of the Story. . . . A Scorpion Adventure

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Since I’d just had the house fumigated less than two weeks ago, I was distressed to walk into the bathroom and discover a scorpion on the floor! Please click on the photos below to see and read about the rest of the story.

I quickly stomped on it with my shoe, but realized it was a soft rubber sole so stepped on it again, then ground it into the tile.
I then went to get a Kleenex to pick it up and flush it down the stool, only to discover. . . .
That although this is what I thought I had seen,
this is what I had actually stomped on.

27 thoughts on “The Rest of the Story. . . . A Scorpion Adventure”

  7. SAM VOELKER

    So funny, so you finally found your house keys and also found out that you need a trip to your eye doctor… But the one photo does look much like a vinegaroon. Oh I must check my showers closely, they come up in the drain~!

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    1. lifelessons Post author

      I’d never heard of a vinegaroon! Sounds like a salad dressing addict.. ha. The photo of the scorpion was actually a photo of a little wire sculpture of a scorpion. I took these photos after and couldn’t get the right light on the key. I swear it looked exactly like a small scorpion in low light. The ring looked like its claws held out before it. I was so careful to stamp on it several times as I knew how tough they can be to kill and often feign being dead and then scurry away. And my sandals were barely more than flipflops. Oh, I get weirder day by day!

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  8. SAM VOELKER

    This is a Mexican name for the Thelyphonida scorpion, which has no long tail, but a long stinger instead, they emit an odor like vinegar, and looked a lot like your keys (or your keys looked like them as the case may be~!). I thought you might have them down there as they start near the Rio Grande and on into the chihuahua desert. I must take photos of my iron bugs to compare with yours, I will try to do that today.. Can’t get a good photo of my ginger flower, but posted it this morning.

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    1. lifelessons Post author

      Oh good. Buggy views…I actually love insects. I find them so interesting and really hate it when I have to resort to killing them. Only mosquitos, flies, roaches and scorpions. Anything else I carry outside or throw into my lower lot.

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      1. SAM VOELKER

        Well I am OK with most of them.. As a kid I would filch my dads magnafying glass and go out to look at bugs… But a cricket is not lovable at three in the morning calling she~! If it were after daylight I would take him fishing with me~! But instead I keep a can of “FLIT” by my bed. Actually most of the rest are welcome, look at the leaves on the flower photos I take, not so much what is there, but rather what WAS there, ate and left~!
        HAY IT IS RAINING AT LOS PERDIDOS~! Welcome here, bet not there lately.

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      2. SAM VOELKER

        Well ditto except for a YELLLING cricket at three in the morning~! If was later in the day I would take him fishing down at my lake but instead I get out the flit… By instead of what you call you new garden, how about something more romantic~? Like: Jordan Hermosa Bajo hermosa

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