Killing A Scorpion In Your Living Room

Posted on 05.22.07 in General and there are 17 comments.

Is never a fun way to start the day. Especially since my children had JUST been laying there a few minutes before…

Do you have scorpions where you live?

What’s the worst pest you’ve had in your house?

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Scorpions? No.  I’m thinking I would have to move.

Great big mosquitoes are our biggest problem in Indiana.  And spiders, which scare me so badly, I can’t relax in a room in which I’ve seen a spider until I know it’s gone!  But my husband says the spiders are good because they eat the mosquitoes...doesn’t matter, I still don’t like them.

I had a scorpion in my first house when we were moving in (down here in FL).  that was scary and probably more scary to me than the snake we found in our current house when we first moved in.  But for some people the second would be scarier I guess.

For me the worst pest was the wasp that followed me in and stung me just last week.  I was carrying in a plate with food on it and needless to say as he stung my arm I had no idea what was happening and dropped the entire plate in front of my wife and 4 kids as I ran around swatting madly at something I wasn’t sure of what it was!

Just to clarify - the scorpion in our living room this morning was not the monster variety shown in the picture above.  It was more the cute, playful, only stings twice as bad as a wasp variety.

Jimmy,
Yeah...I did an image search for “cute, playful scorpion” and I didn’t get anything so I had to go with the monster variety…

...cute and playful....geesh…

I remember when I was in high school, I was laying on the floor watching a movie.  I swatted something crawling off my chest, and then saw it was a scorpion.  Another time, I was running through the house barefoot, stepped on something sharp, and noticed the smashed scorpion where I had just stepped.  No biggie, the scorpions in our area are generally harmless.

Of course, I do have a crazy streak in me, resulting in the general lack of fear for such creepy crawlies.  When I was a kid I would go out with friends at night and hunt rattle snakes with a spot light and a machete.  Never been bit.  Not that I’m going to encourage the Lil’E’s to follow in my footsteps . . .

A few weeks ago, our mini weenie dog Daisy, recently brought us her newfound prize possession from the backyard- a freshly killed rat! This wasnt the first time either!
I sure dont like scorpions - I feel threathened by them!

Notice, I did say a lack of fear and not a lack of respect.  I do highly respect what these critters can do, they just don’t bother me.

My husband is alot like you Euphrony, he has always been up for discovering these critters. He recently found an 3 or 5ft snake right outside our church, right in the middle of town! It was run over by some church members-trying to kill it, he took it, (My husband works at our church as the Facility Manager) and brought it in the churches garage and tried to nurse it back to health. He came back to work the next morning and it was dead- he was pretty sad about it. But what in the world was he gonna do with a snake? He said it was gonna be our churchs mascot! hehehe

Thank goodness we do not have scorpions here in South Dakota! We do have killer size mosquitoes and lovely little ticks though!!!!

Hope you don’t mind me commenting on your blog!

Euphrony,
You know you’re a Texan when....

Tressa,
One night Jimmy and I were sitting on our back porch and we saw something run across the fence and we realized it wasn’t a squirrel. It was a rat. SO GROSS.

Shanley,
You can comment anytime. I’m honored you’d take the time!!!

There aren’t any scorpions in South Dakota...but I’m a cold weather wimp and if I’m not mistaken, it gets a bit nippy there, eh?

You have a adorable kids by the way.

Hey, you haven’t lived until you’ve cleaned a snake or small mammal’s remains out of you dryer because they slithered through the vent to get warm.

Are you serious? That’s disgusting.

Yes, very serious.  I’ve also helped a friend loosen the fan belt on his car so he could remove the dead kittens that had crawled up in their thinking it a perfect place to stay warm and nap.  Survival of the fittest: if you don’t know enough to not try to sleep and stay warm inside a machine with moving parts, you will not live.

The pests here in Tennessee don’t seem to be nearly as bad as those in Texas. Something about having sub-tropical temps year round and a very mild winter means that you guys down there grow some of the world’s scariest critters.

My wife is deathly afraid, I mean genuinely terrified to an irrational degree, of scorpions. I don’t even joke around with her about it. They freak her out (and thankfully we supposedly don’t have them here).

By the way, rats make good pets. I know that the wild ones are dirty and scary, but as a species they generally clean up pretty well for domestic purposes.

I had a friend who had a rat in her car.  It ended up dying in the car, but she couldn’t find it.  So it was baking in the California sun and she was driving with all of her windows down until she could take it in.  They took apart the car and finally found it, but at that point, it was too expensive to put back together so it had to be totalled.  UGH!!!!  Now, I’m always scared of having a rat jump in my car.

oh yuck.... yeah I don’t like scorpions… and I don’t know if they are ever cute or playful.....

Here in Nashville area we apparently have rattle snakes, but not around our suburban neighborhoods, (I pray)

We also have some very large garden spiders in the summer.

It wasn’t exactly a pest, but the funniest creature in our house has been the time when:
1. the children left the garage door and door into the house open
2. the goats got out of the field
3. then the goats have wandered into the house.

I’ve also found a rooster in my living room once before, but that’s because my oldest son was playing a joke on me.

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