I COMPLETELY panicked and called my friend Ty. I then proceeded to stare at the little sucker until Ty arrived in fear that it might take off running. I'm not sure what I would have done if it started running but I was sure watching it. Stared for 30 minutes. Yep.Here is Ty (hero of the day) dousing it with bug spray in preparation of the capture.
Here he has contained it in a Gladware throw away container. You know there was NO way I was re-using ANYTHING that he captured that thing in. (It is at the bottom of the container; not the best picture)
And here is the little sucker trapped and ready to be taken outside.
And outside we took it... across the street and dumped it in the bushes by the main clubhouse and then threw away the container in the trashcans by the mailboxes. And that was all before 8am.I am currently sitting on my couch with a bit of anxiety not knowing if there is another one of these things lurking in the corners and wondering how quickly I can get out of this desert ;)
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Now, I am sitting with my feet on the couch. Thanks!
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LEAVE THE DESERT! COME EAST! I have NEVER seen a scorpion out here. I did sit through 3 hours of a rain delay baseball game tonight--Nats trying to stop Randy Johnson from winning 300 games and the rain did it for them!
check your sheets tonight...
and your towels in the morning...
and the roll of toilet paper in the middle of the night...
or JUST MOVE!!
Why didn't you just kill it? You are way too nice. Scorpions deserve to DIE! We had quite a few scorpions in our last house. I think it was 8 over about 2 years. I got stung in our kitchen. It blended in with the floor and I went to the cupboard to get something and felt a horrible pain. We had our bug guy come the next day and got on a monthly schedule. It really helped. They are one of the scariest things to have in your house. After I got stung, I would sit at the dining table with my feet on the rungs of my chair. I couldn't put my barefeet down. LOL!
The bug spray you can buy at Wal-Mart or Lowe's is crap. It just makes most bugs high. I think scorpions and roaches actually enjoy it. It's almost better to just use hair spray and a match but you run the risk of burning the house down.
We pay a dude (aka "The Bug Guy") to come by every month to spray for bugs. The bug guy has the good bug spray that actually kills bugs...
It's that or we burn the house down... seems like the lesser of two evils.
On second thought... here's the best way deal with finding a scorpion -- don't spray it and for crying out loud don't put it in gladware and try to save it! -- just take your shoe off and WHAM!!!. Smash the little bastard! (pardon my colorful language)
Niki Miller is exactly right - "Scorpions deserve to DIE."
Spray it with hairspray (the good stuff where he can't move) then smash the hell out of him! Don't save him, he'll just make more of his own kind.
Then definitely call the bug guy! Well worth it.
Yikes! I hate scorpions! They scare me to death! Okay, I think I am going to go put shoes on!
Ew! I would have freaked out too... Those things are nasty! If they didn't sting it may not be so bad, but I'm scared to death of them! YUK!
Oh my gosh that would have freaked me out. I hate scorpions!
I just need to make this an 11-comment post. Your readers clearly feel strongly about this issue - curse words and all. Bugs getting loopy, spraying them with hair spray first... funny. Made for a lot chuckling on my end. :)
Speaking of getting high - hope you found the treat I left you!
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