Ohhhh don't say that. My rural friends have been getting them too and I keep telling myself...they are not in the city....

My first encounter since living in AZ as a teenager. Missy the patrol cat sighted on the edge of the rug while we were watching TV. Mike introduced Scorpio to Nike. Scared to be barefoot, scared of shoes. Crap.

Yikes Mia!!! Thank goodness for your patrol kitty!

I killed a few in the house last year. You would just see them out of no where every once in a while. Don't know what makes them come in all of a sudden. We were very fortunate to see them before we got stung. Hope one is all you have!!!

I killed a few in the house last year. You would just see them out of no where every once in a while. Don't know what makes them come in all of a sudden. We were very fortunate to see them before we got stung. Hope one is all you have!!!

I killed a few in the house last year. You would just see them out of no where every once in a while. Don't know what makes them come in all of a sudden. We were very fortunate to see them before we got stung. Hope one is all you have!!!

Sorry. Darn phone !!!!

I've only found one in the house this year, and it was in the kitchen sink, where I promptly washed it down the drain and I let the garbage disposal chew it up on its way down.

I have been bitten by one in the garden this year. They tend to loiter under pieces of lumber, floating row cover, landscape fabric, etc. so I have to really watch where I put my hands. Forget to be watchful just one time, and they'll make you pay.

Mia, When I have them in the house, I just slap my shoes together sole-to-sole upside down before I put them on so that I can knock any scorpions out of the shoes before I put them on. There's nothing worse than sticking your foot into a shoe and feeling that scorpion squirming around in there...and you just KNOW it is going to sting you before you can get your foot back out of the shoe.

We had them really bad inside the house our first couple of years here. I think they got into the house while it was under construction and it just took a while to get rid of them. One thing that worked really well for us was to put those mouse-type glue traps (flat sticky boards) in closet corners and in out of the way places...like the corner of the bathroom behind the little waste basket or behind the toilet or whatever. I was amazed at how many scorpions (and brown recluse spiders) we caught on glue traps back in those early years.

This morning when I went outside early, I found two scorpions in a nearly empty flat pan of water that I put out for the birds and bunnies. They were still alive, so I poured a little Medina orange oil from a bottle that I keep in the shed into that pan and added water. I figured either they would drown, or the orange oil would dissolve their exoskelton, or both.....and either way, they wouldn't remain around to bother us.

We usually only get scorpions in the house either when the weather is exceptionally wet or exceptionally dry. I assume they are simply searching for a more pleasant environment indoors than what they have outdoors.

If you keep a can of spider spray inside the house, it works well on scorpions, which are closely related to spiders.

Dawn

Years ago when we lived east of Norman, our first grandchild was visiting and I looked across the dining room to see him hold his hand up to show us what was crawling on his hand. I quickly ran across the room and knocked the scorpion off of his hand. I have no idea why it didn't sting him, but it didn't. Those things really hurt. I haven't seen any at this house, but growing up in southern Oklahoma, we didn't dare pick-up a rock without flipping it over first.

Dawn, I think you are right about new construction. We know a young couple here with 2 small children and their new house has been over-run with scorpions.

Scorpions have been terrible this year...our house is only about 4 years old, they are bad here and our rent house is 35 years old and they are bad there......like Dawn I think they are bad when it is exceptionally wet or exceptionally dry....and also like Dawn I keep the glue boxes next to every outside door and in the closet and pantry - much rather have someone see a gluebox than a scorpion. You will be amazed at what you catch. Scorpions also come up the drains into the sinks....even though sewer system is supposed to be all sealed.

Yes!!! Us, too!! Son got stung by one. I can't rid myself of all the fiddle back (brown recluse) spiders, either.

Serenity requires an escort to the bathroom and I don't blame her!

We've received so much moisture, they're thriving.

I often fall asleep on the couch watching the news - sleep hits me like a bus, there is no stopping it - and DH will come wake me up before he goes up to bed to rally me to get up the stairs to bed. Some of the most hilarious, nonsensical things come out of my mouth at this time, as I struggle to go through a mental checklist through a fog of sleep, like "Set alarm? Lock door? Cat inside?", peppered with "Stove cat? Light bleach? Camel dishwasher?" tidbits. I can be VERY insistent about some of the gibberish, and my husband has learned to just agree with me, because I will not stop asking, even if he has no idea what I'm talking about. Lots of times I do not remember these encounters, and DH tells me about them in the morning, but sometimes I can feel myself saying the wrong words but the real meaning is so clear in my head, I cannot believe he just doesn't get it!

Thurs night, two days after the scorpion incident, DH woke me from a sound sleep on the couch to go up to bed, and evidently I refused to take my feet down off the couch and put them on the floor. "Scorpion rug! Scorpion feet! Carpet! Cat! No! No! Don't make me!"

He had a hard time convincing me to get to bed that night. I just wouldn't give up on the scorpion. I may need an escort to the bathroom, too! :)

Mia, I shouldn't laugh, but that's hilarious!

Mia, lol lol lol. Thanks for the laugh.

A couple of years ago we were at a VFD fundraiser at the Orr VFD Station way out in NW Love County. It had been a hot day, and we were sitting at tables in the fire station bays with all the bay doors open for air movement. While someone was speaking, probably when they were doing the auction part of the fundraiser, a scorpion was running around on the floor near our feet. Everyone was trying to lift their feet up off the floor so the scorpion wouldn't get them, and some were trying to stomp the scorpion from a seated position when it got close enough to them for them to stomp it. It looked like we were engaged in some odd sort of seated dance. I don't think anyone ever got that scorpion....it could run!

Bon, The only way I know to rid the house of fiddlebacks is to spray it well and remove all the other bugs, which can be impossible to do since bugs seem to find their way inside. Spiders come inside looking for food, and if they find it, they stay. I just keep glue traps in closet corners. Like farmgardener said, you won't believe all the stuff you catch on those glue traps. We have cats, so if a mouse dares find its way into our home, the cats get it, so we never have caught a mouse on a glue trap here. However, we'll have a curious cat come walking (or running) out of a closet with a glue trap stuck to its leg or tail.

Farmgardener, Not too long ago, one of the guys who works in Dallas with Tim sent him a text message about having a snake pop its head up through his shower drain while he was taking a shower at his house, which I believe is in a fairly new subdivision. Being skeptical, I was asking Tim "How is that possible?" and while he was answering me by saying the snake must have entered through the storm sewer and come up through the plumbing, the guy sent a photo of the snake head sticking up through the shower drain. Can you imagine that? I would have been totally freaked out.

Dawn

It's true! Kids and I hop from furniture to furniture at night. It's become a game in our small house in the evening when we know they "come out".

EEK

The day I purchased my first bee hive in Mexico (when we lived there) I drove to the home of a friend to pick it up. We pulled the lid to inspect the hive, and found a scorpion on top of the inner cover. My friend calmly pulled out a pocket knife and clipped the stinger off of the scorpion. I don't recall just exactly what he did with it after that, but I do recall, after we finished with the bees, that we walked over to a little store (think open window in a neighbor's house) and bought a soft drink. As he was paying he pulled the scorpion out, in the palm of his hand and held it quite close to the woman's face, asking in an innocent tone, "I found this in a hive, would you happen to know what it is?" She levitated a few inches and taught me some new cuss words!

George
Tahlequah, OK

I got new windows installed in my house a couple months ago. I was in the living room studying and they were in the back doing the window in Mishari's room when I suddenly heard a scream followed by shouting and banging around. By the time I got back there, it was all dead quiet and they were looking a bit sheepish. Turns out while they were pulling the frame out, a dead scorpion fell out of the top of the frame and landed on one of them and until they realized it was dead, they were, well, a bit panicked. I just laughed and told them that we had a lot out here and if they saw a live one, to let me know and I'd escort it away from the house for them. They worked a bit faster after that...