Rob12paws

...because dh just found one on our kitchen floor....?

Alfresco

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Scorpions

Australian scorpions can give a painful sting but are not considered dangerous. First aid for a sting is to apply a cold pack and to seek medical aid if pain persists. It is also a good idea to try to catch the scorpion and have it identified. The scorpion usually seen in houses is the small Marbled Scorpion.

To avoid being stung by a scorpion, wear good gloves and shoes in the garden and don't leave things lying around on the floor in the house or garage. Reduce invertebrate habitat by covering compost and garbage, and cleaning up building materials around the house. Scorpions are great pest controllers in the garden, so if one is found in the house, collect it carefully in a jar and remove it to a safe distance, rather than killing it.

Rob12paws

Thanks, mate.

It's a wonderful idea not to have anything lying around on the floor, but with a 12-y-o it's not always possible - in fact, knowing my dd, it's *never* possible. She's a messy little tike. I'm always warning her that the muddles on her bedroom floor are an open invitation to spiders to move in, but she doesn't do anything about it. Then screams for me or Dad when she sees a microscopic spider in her room...

I was really good about checking gloves, shoes, boots etc. when we first moved here four years ago. But you get complacent, don't you?

iamthecreaturefromuranus

I nearly stood on one in my bare feet in my front room a couple of years back. Michael Flatley had nothing on me that day.

verystormy

Got stung on the foot earlier in the year. A bit like a small burn in feeling, saw for a few days but not too bad

scottishcelts

We have baby scorpions at our local play park - we've yet to meet the parents

kar-kier

I found one in the baby's chair not long after we arrived - scared the shit out of me! I caught it and identified it as a marbled one, so panic over! Put it at the back of the garden in the hope it would eat all the spiders!

fish.01

I've never seen one....do we not get them much in brisbane?

framac67

Had a rather large cane toad in my work boot which I had left outside. Harmless but not very pleasant.