Scorpion - Hey check that toenail!

Found this arachnid on our bathroom floor at about 11:30 pm last night. Since I had already blipped for yesterday, I sat down and read the Economist for half an hour until midnight.

I wasn't worried that he would move because he appeared dead from pest control materials on the window sill.

This shot was at 12:10 am. When I went back to start shooting, I found that he had moved about three feet! Later, when picking him up with tweezers, to store him in my specimen jar, he started wiggling violently!

This little fellow is a bark scorpion which is common around here. I'm told that his sting is very painful for a day or so, but not lethal. Ice is the recommended first aid. We find only one or two a year inside our house and they are dead or dying like this one.

"scorpion |?skôrp??n|
noun
a terrestrial arachnid with lobsterlike pincers and a poisonous sting at the end of its jointed tail, which it can hold curved over the back. Most kinds live in tropical and subtropical areas."