Just when you think you are safe....

LandCruiserPhil · 08-19-08, 10:41 PM

Just the other day I was thinking I should go scorpion hunting again. Well I didn't go soon enough! One finally got me twice to boot. But in the end he is dead and I have another trophy...fuk'r.

Let me back up a little...last year I purchased a scorpion light (not to be confused with a black light) and went to war with the little f'rs and I must of taken out 150. Thinking that every one I take out is one more I don't need to worry about. This year I started early taking out around 75 to the point I was finding myself go way deep into the yard to Seek, Find, and Kill! I was good and my system was getting perfected. It was getting difficult to find them so I backed off. Definitely noticed the change only seeing one in the house this year. In previous years we have found and killed as many as 20 in the house.

Tonight I stepped out of my office door and felt the hit and looked down only to see the coward making a run for it. No problem I get your ass...later. When into the house and grabbed the Extractor to see if would help with the sting. The Extractor does not help with the pain so I'm off for a rematch. Within 1 minute I locate him and took pride in watching him suffer as I have done with many of his family members in the past.

I plan to resume my assault in the up coming weeks even though the season is coming to an end.

The first picture is of my dead opponent, the second are the 2 hits he got on my big toe.

a.mus.ed · 08-19-08, 10:44 PM

damn dude - i was thinking there was something seriously wrong with your toe. until i realized that it was upside down. then it made sense, it's just ugly.

BwardeAZ · 08-20-08, 12:16 AM

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, it's just ugly.

Maybe, crop out the nail and the black whiskers probably would have lowered the ugly by 80%

Glad you survived, I to battle those suckers every year.

-Spike- · 08-20-08, 12:31 AM

Oh, lemme guess- you can't do any work this week? Ain't gonna work my friend. Delegate or something.

-Spike

KingBeeIII · 08-20-08, 03:09 AM

I am also a veteran of the great "Scorpion Wars". I am very fortunate to never have experienced the "Sting" of defeat (knock on wood). The last house I lived in with my parents had them, my first house had them, and now my second house does aswell. I've never strayed into their territory to hunt them, rather I just defend my territory to the best of my ability. I hear alcohol and aspirin help with the pain.

Keep up the good fight.

MaddBaggins · 08-20-08, 06:11 AM

Death to the little buggers!!! I NEED to get one of those light Phil. I've killed 3 good sized ones in the last month. 2 were in my room and one was on the back porch. fuk'rs

splitshot · 08-20-08, 06:56 AM

Last one tagged me on the arch, couldn't walk on it for two days. We are killing an average of two a week in the house this year. I think Kevin is the one who turned me onto this light.

BMAN · 08-20-08, 03:06 PM

I have an especially feisty fuk'r in a mason jar on the counter right now. Caught him in the yard last week. I have a small fishermans blacklight that I use in the yard occasionaly. I need one of those pissed off scorp lights though. I have been finding an average of 5-10 /year since moving in 6 years ago. The first 2 years however were full with 2-3 per month and often 2-3 /week. Glad that's over now.

Time to go home and shake the jar around just to get that little shithead all riled up.

BwardeAZ · 08-20-08, 03:20 PM

Cool light. I tried that website, but can't seem to find that light. Any ideas were else one could get one?

Thanks

FJ40LVR · 08-20-08, 04:27 PM

WOW - I have lived in AZ for 10 years now, mostly in Chandler / Tempe, and too this day have never seen a scorpion.

BrotherRob · 08-20-08, 04:48 PM

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WOW - I have lived in AZ for 10 years now, mostly in Chandler / Tempe, and too this day have never seen a scorpion.

Yur not lookin hard enuf, dude

Gotta git won of them there cool lites.

Cantinero · 08-20-08, 09:50 PM

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WOW - I have lived in AZ for 10 years now, mostly in Chandler / Tempe, and too this day have never seen a scorpion.

Ditto. Lived here for 45 yrs now and have never had one in my home. Granted I have had one in a plexi cube at work for about 3yrs. now as a pet, but on a personal note I have never seen one in any home nor property I've ever lived in/on. Believe me I look. Must be a eastside thing or maybe a replant/ snowbird thing, but for this native Arizonan I haven't been bothered. It could be we westside homies have scared the little critters to the east side for all you wannabie poser bada$$es to deal with.

Yo WES-siii-oyd dog represent!

BTW sorry 'bout your run in there LCP.

mrhustle23 · 08-20-08, 10:28 PM

I'm a native arizonian also, Tucson originally and I hardly ever run into these guys. I heard they like to crawl around fallen palm tree limbs, which I occasionally have a few in my front yard, and I have yet to see them.

I have heard that they like to live under couches in the foothills in Tucson. I had friends that found a ton of them when they moved... ugh!

medtro · 08-20-08, 10:40 PM

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The first picture is of my dead opponent, the second are the 2 hits he got on my big toe.

I am sorry this happened to you. Do you have a swollen toe today? May be post a day 2 pic of the toe?

DSRTRDR · 08-20-08, 10:55 PM

what's wrong with using chemistry

BwardeAZ · 08-20-08, 11:11 PM

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what's wrong with using chemistry

It doesn't work, you have to hit them with foot patrol. They only respond to mashing or trying to remove there food source.

LandCruiserPhil · 08-21-08, 12:29 AM

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what's wrong with using chemistry

I used chemistry kinda... CRC Brakleen

KingBeeIII · 08-21-08, 03:56 AM

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Must be a eastside thing or maybe a replant/ snowbird thing, but for this native Arizonan I haven't been bothered. It could be we westside homies have scared the little critters to the east side for all you wannabie poser bada$$es to deal with.

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WOW - I have lived in AZ for 10 years now, mostly in Chandler / Tempe, and too this day have never seen a scorpion.

Oh com'on. I've been out here for most of my 32 years and all but about six months of that was on the west side. I guess you two have never lived in a newer home or near the base of a mountain. I kill two or three every time I clean my garage.

MaddBaggins · 08-21-08, 05:57 AM

I grew up here also, never saw the fukr's when I was younger.
My house was built in 70 and when they started tearing up desert to put in new houses nearby, we started to get them.

Pest control does not work Claudia. We've been getting our house sprayed monthly for a few years. Scorpions just don't care.

splitshot · 08-21-08, 06:44 AM

If you've got a gap the size of a credit card in your house, they can get inside. I've used a product called Talstar (Bifenthrin) with some success, usually just flushes them out of all the cracks and crevices. That one in my hand was still alive, but paralyzed.

Bwarde, try this link, third one from the bottom. Model 395nM @ $9.

www.LEDwholesalers.com

Phil, have you tried the shock treatment? 9v battery or a pezo starter from a grill, 'spose to neutralize the poison. (Maybe I should have brought that up yesterday

).

hj60 · 08-21-08, 06:49 AM

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I used chemistry kinda... CRC Brakleen

Brakleen kills bugs DEAD!
Would any UV light work?
Got to Napa, CQ, VatoZone, Checker and get an AC leak detector light.

LandCruiserPhil · 08-21-08, 08:42 AM

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Phil, have you tried the shock treatment? 9v battery or a pezo starter from a grill, 'spose to neutralize the poison. (Maybe I should have brought that up yesterday

).

Zero pain in less then 24hours. From others I have talked to the venom seems to effects everybody differently. All in all it as not that bad.

Blues Dawg · 08-21-08, 09:23 AM

Crickets. When I've had crickets at the house, the scorps come to dine. Killed the crickets, scorpion presence has been nil.

Cantinero · 08-21-08, 01:36 PM

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Oh com'on. I've been out here for most of my 32 years and all but about six months of that was on the west side. I guess you two have never lived in a newer home or near the base of a mountain. I kill two or three every time I clean my garage.

Not true. I had a house built at 75th & T-bird in the early 90's and lived there for about a year before having to sell it. I never saw a single scorpion the whole time there. It was farm land previous to it's development, and I think that has a big play in their prevelance. The place I live now was originally farm land as well in the 60's & 70's when I was growing up and was subdivided in the mid 80's. I have black widows, but no scorpions. I also don't have a ton of crickets either which is their favorite food. Kill the crickets and the scorpions will move next door to your neighbors house.

Blues Dawg · 08-21-08, 02:46 PM

mmmmm...crickets

FJ40LVR · 08-21-08, 03:14 PM

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Not true. I had a house built at 75th & T-bird in the early 90's and lived there for about a year before having to sell it. I never saw a single scorpion the whole time there. It was farm land previous to it's development, and I think that has a big play in their prevelance. The place I live now was originally farm land as well in the 60's & 70's when I was growing up and was subdivided in the mid 80's. I have black widows, but no scorpions. I also don't have a ton of crickets either which is their favorite food. Kill the crickets and the scorpions will move next door to your neighbors house.

I have heard that threory befor as well, were my house sytands was all corn / crops fields a couple of years ago...with no open desert for miles in any direction. Would the residual pestcides from agriculture be the common blocker for these little bastids?

Blues Dawg · 08-21-08, 03:28 PM

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I have heard that threory befor as well, were my house sytands was all corn / crops fields a couple of years ago...with no open desert for miles in any direction. Would the residual pestcides from agriculture be the common blocker for these little bastids?

My house was built on retired orchard and flower gardens along Baseline and we have scorpions in the neighborhood. It was diligent cricket killing that seemed to manage them. (That and sealing the house as best I could. I even siliconed all the sill plates and sprayed inside the framing while it was being built.)

Cantinero · 08-21-08, 03:50 PM

The other thing you can do is become a cat herder. Domestic house cats are excellent scorpion killing machines. The scorpion sting does not affect them for some reason.

Had a friend of mine who lived in Mexico for awhile and he said his cat would kill / eat one or two a day.

LandCruiserPhil · 08-21-08, 05:31 PM

The craziest scorpion control solution was from the Harkins of Harkins Theaters. They had a unmanageable problem with scorpion and imported Tokay geckos a nocturnal scorpion hunting reptile. The geckos run free in there house and she claims she has not seen another scorpion since.

BwardeAZ · 08-21-08, 06:36 PM

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imported Tokay geckos

Funny, I had a friend who used to paint pet store windows and got one of those in a trade. I was feeding it one day and it bit the glove and held onto it for 2hrs. It was hard to get my fingers out. Scary, and spooky looking F-ing lizard. I can't imagine they would have any bugs in there house.

Thanks for the link to the light!