Look at what I found in my bathroom tonight. 
Just a very little guy, but acting very tough. I took another photo by a pen for scale.
I shooed him into an empty yogurt container. I guess I’ll keep him until Bella sees him tomorrow. I’ve never been bit by a scorpion, but apparently it is not deadly, so much as painful – like a bad bee sting.
I had a friend once who picked scorpions up by the tail. His hand would hover over the scorpion (and in a terrarium they seem angrier) and snap forward to pinch the tail between his index finger and thumb. I don’t know if I actually ever saw him do this, or if he just did a really good job of describing the process to me. His name was Chaz. It helped me to be less afraid of scorpions, but I still don’t want to touch them.
Cool tip about scorpions; they glow under a black light – so scorpion hunters overturn rocks and logs at night using a black light flashlight.
September 6, 2006 at 1:19 pm
how completely adorable! your new house is turning into Critter Park.
September 26, 2006 at 6:49 pm
i too found a scorpion, just like yours, the same size, in my
kitchen, on the wall, yesterday, i found a wolf spider in the bathroom
with babies on its back, a very big one, what is going on?
September 28, 2006 at 1:43 am
Well, I don’t know where you’re at, but I live in Joshua Tree, California, and last year we got much more rain than usual. Water=life, hence lots of critters underfoot. You should see the Gambal quail; they are all over the place. And just before I moved in, a mess of baby green mohave rattlesnakes were found (and killed by the previous tenant) just under the front step. (Just for the record, I prefer relocating rattlesnakes – but I came to that choice only after killing two mohave greens when I first moved to the desert fifteen years ago.)
March 4, 2007 at 3:41 am
i raise scorpions, i have 5 adults, and one scorpling, they are not bad creatures, just misunderstood. they have a notorious rap, and people just fear them. i wouldnt pick one up by the tail without tongs, unles you want to get pinched, it only hurts a little, but if you arent paying a fair amount of attention, it can be enough. i hold mine sometimes, but i always use padded tongs to pick them up,then i set them into my hand. i have 4 emporers, and a flat rock. they are fun to watch, and need very little attention in order to survive, some fossils from 400 million years ago, are from scorpions (who havent changed much in that time). my mother scorpion had 20 babies, the first ten were in a big wad, they all died, the second 10 made it, although the mother ate 6 of them, only toinght did i find the last one….