Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Found something while sweeping.

Found this guy while sweeping the floor today.  I had to laugh because the other night I spent an hour outside looking for them.  Also this is a species I have not seen here, even though it is the most common species in Idaho.

And no it is not deadly, more like a bee sting.
    
Paruroctonus boreus




Not a good pic.
Solifugae sp.

2 comments:

  1. I don't know my scorpions very well, just our bark scorpion - I hear there are a few others down here in Abq. I assumed you had a bark scorpion, until I looked up the name you gave - "northern scorpion", learning something new, again -

    http://people.uleth.ca/~dan.johnson/scorpions/northern_scorpion_dj.pdf

    http://www.azscorpion.com/P_bor.html

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  2. Yes, they do look a lot alike.

    If it was I would fix my door sweep. lol

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