Hello You Lot!!
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I have a UV black light and scorpion killer ordered and I’m shaking out shoes and clothes like a nutter. I’m also going to have a crick in my neck from walking around scanning the floor. I’m paranoid about where the cats are at all times. I’m hoping the initial fright will wear off in a few weeks and I’ll be back to complacency….until the next time LOL
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Scorpions can also be found in Europe. Look at the scorpion in the attached news article. Looks larger than any scorpion I ever encountered in Texas. The scorpion mention in this artcle was found by a family in Pecs, Hungary..Yikes.
https://hungarytoday.hu/stray-scorpi...garian-family/
https://hungarytoday.hu/stray-scorpi...garian-family/
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Scorpions can also be found in Europe. Look at the scorpion in the attached news article. Looks larger than any scorpion I ever encountered in Texas. The scorpion mention in this artcle was found by a family in Pecs, Hungary..Yikes.
https://hungarytoday.hu/stray-scorpi...garian-family/
https://hungarytoday.hu/stray-scorpi...garian-family/
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Scorpions can also be found in Europe. Look at the scorpion in the attached news article. Looks larger than any scorpion I ever encountered in Texas. The scorpion mention in this artcle was found by a family in Pecs, Hungary..Yikes.
https://hungarytoday.hu/stray-scorpi...garian-family/
https://hungarytoday.hu/stray-scorpi...garian-family/
This guy was several inches long. Maybe 3, 4 inches or more. Scared me to bits! I NEVER left any door open without a screen ...
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FYI, the most dangerous scorpions in the US Southwest are the small, 'bark' variety. The bigger ones look scary but apparently are less dangerous. I encountered a 'big' one waltzing across my patio one evening. I sprayed it with a 'scorpion' spray, but it didn't flinch. Just went into 'attack' pose ...
This guy was several inches long. Maybe 3, 4 inches or more. Scared me to bits! I NEVER left any door open without a screen ...
This guy was several inches long. Maybe 3, 4 inches or more. Scared me to bits! I NEVER left any door open without a screen ...
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I once read that there are about 100 colonies of Scorpions in the UK, and many of them have likely been there since Roman times when they came over on a military baggage cart.
I've only ever seen two outside of a zoo/ museum, and both were in Italy, in a villa we were staying in. Needless to say they didn't survive.
I've only ever seen two outside of a zoo/ museum, and both were in Italy, in a villa we were staying in. Needless to say they didn't survive.
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Reported back in September, in southern Hungary -
"When the association went to the scene, the animal was quickly found, and after a successful capture, identified as a Carpathian scorpion, which is found and colonizes only in Transylvania, hundreds of kilometers away from where it was found in Hungary."
"When the association went to the scene, the animal was quickly found, and after a successful capture, identified as a Carpathian scorpion, which is found and colonizes only in Transylvania, hundreds of kilometers away from where it was found in Hungary."
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Reported back in September, in southern Hungary -
"When the association went to the scene, the animal was quickly found, and after a successful capture, identified as a Carpathian scorpion, which is found and colonizes only in Transylvania, hundreds of kilometers away from where it was found in Hungary."
"When the association went to the scene, the animal was quickly found, and after a successful capture, identified as a Carpathian scorpion, which is found and colonizes only in Transylvania, hundreds of kilometers away from where it was found in Hungary."
I guess the errant scorpion must have hitched a ride to Hungary then, most likely as a stowaway in a cargo shipment. Wouldn't be the first time a misplaced insect was found out of their customary place of habitation.
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Civilservant pointed out that they sting, and I shall point out that they're not insects, they're arachnids, so in the same family as spiders, mites, and several other non-insect creepy-crawlies.
Last edited by Pulaski; Nov 24th 2022 at 1:41 pm.
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Reported back in September, in southern Hungary -
"When the association went to the scene, the animal was quickly found, and after a successful capture, identified as a Carpathian scorpion, which is found and colonizes only in Transylvania, hundreds of kilometers away from where it was found in Hungary."
"When the association went to the scene, the animal was quickly found, and after a successful capture, identified as a Carpathian scorpion, which is found and colonizes only in Transylvania, hundreds of kilometers away from where it was found in Hungary."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63724710.amp
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Lol, Hungarian nationalists would be quick to point out that Transylvania is considered to be Hungarian territory! You may have read about the scarf that PM Viktor Orban flashed at a soccer game, showing the pre-Trianon borders:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63724710.amp
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63724710.amp