What is the Best Scorpion Repellent? (buying, most dangerous, food)

[backtochitown]

Originally Posted by joemomma

Try Cy-kick or Demon double strength.

I never found spraying to really affect the scorpion itself...if it kills other insects scorpions use for food that may work...we used to get 2-3 scorpions a month in our old N. Scottsdale house regardless of spraying or not...we used to get more before I sealed our house too.

[twiggy]

Originally Posted by BiggsHomes

Tie some dental floss low across the floor, about an inch high. Their tails get caught up in it.

How funny, is this ethical. ? I think I remember doing this to cars when I was a kid.

[ron17571]

Scorpions are like cockroaches,they laugh at chemicals,use cats or chickens.Or a bright light just off the ground outside in the yard with sticky paper underneeth,attract the scorpion to the bugs under the light n get them stuck on the paper.

[azlibrabbit]

This is our first monsoon living in the wilderness--nearest neighbors about 1/4 mile away, so plenty of room for critters, and we have them ALL. I was raised in the country and I'm not afraid of stuff, but I still find myself yelping often. We have lots of insects in the house since we had to evict the tarantulas so that the dogs wouldn't kill them. The FD took away a too-friendly rattlesnake last week. What I'm learning is to pick my battles. If it won't make me or my animals sick, I relocate it. If it will hurt us, I kill it or get someone braver to take it away. My husband has moved 16 Colorado River toads to distant washes since the rains came. We've found two dying scorps in the house (diatomaceous earth DOES work) and one very live one on the patio this week--these are my worst fear! The non-toxic toads have doubled in size because they are eating so well!

I have developed a list of "persona non grata:"
Venomous snakes
Venomous spiders
Venomous toads
Scorpions
Harvester Ants (my son is allergic)

Tarantulas, Roadrunners, Woodpeckers, Toads and Nonvenomous snakes are my best friends, not necessarily in that order.

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by azlibrabbit

This is our first monsoon living in the wilderness--nearest neighbors about 1/4 mile away, so plenty of room for critters, and we have them ALL. I was raised in the country and I'm not afraid of stuff, but I still find myself yelping often. We have lots of insects in the house since we had to evict the tarantulas so that the dogs wouldn't kill them. The FD took away a too-friendly rattlesnake last week. What I'm learning is to pick my battles. If it won't make me or my animals sick, I relocate it. If it will hurt us, I kill it or get someone braver to take it away. My husband has moved 16 Colorado River toads to distant washes since the rains came. We've found two dying scorps in the house (diatomaceous earth DOES work) and one very live one on the patio this week--these are my worst fear! The non-toxic toads have doubled in size because they are eating so well!

I have developed a list of "persona non grata:"
Venomous snakes
Venomous spiders
Venomous toads
Scorpions
Harvester Ants (my son is allergic)

Tarantulas, Roadrunners, Woodpeckers, Toads and Nonvenomous snakes are my best friends, not necessarily in that order.

I dont understand your logic... Those animals wont hurt you unless you mess with them. Theres NO NEED to kill them just out of fear. Call Animal Control before you take matters into your own hands.

Also, there is only ONE species of scorpion in AZ that is POTENTIALLY lethal, and ALL SPIDERS ARE VENOMOUS. Do you kill every single spider you see? None of them (besides the black widow) will do you any harm at all, and black widows are as shy as spiders get. Just leave the critters alone, let them live and do their jobs as God intended.

[amatrine]

I live in the country too. Only seen two scorps, but do have a lot of sun scorpions, carpet beatles, palo verde beetles, large cockroaches, frogs,blister beetles and the darn flies.
I eeeek every day. I can not sit on my porch at night and have a cigarette without getting some kind of bug landing on me......Every night I have a beetle hunt in my house with a shoe, because thats when they come out.

[amatrine]

Forgot to add, I have four cats, but they got bored of chasing the bugs,lol
Cats are not immune to scorpion stings, they just have thicker skin and a less chance of getting the poison in their system

[asugraduate]

I have lived in my house for almost three years now, and we've had only about 8 scorpions in or around our house (that we've seen). One of those stung me in November. Even so, I'd much rather have the scorpions than this guy/girl who recently visited my backyard.
I have lived in Arizona for 23 years, and this is the first snake I've seen. Thankfully. I believe this is a young Western Diamondback.

[Steve-o]

(^)

Yep, thats a juvie Crotalus atrox (or WDB rattlesnake if you go by common names). Nice find! Probably just cruising through looking for a meal. I found a similar sized one in my FIL's yard in Scottsdale and relocated it down the road in a undeveloped lot.

[asugraduate]

They are building apartments just north of my housing development (like 1/2 a mile), so I think this was his habitat. It was all desert with lots of rocks, crevices and bushes. A good place for a snake.
Just before we saw the snake, we had seen a lizard in the yard. I think the snake was just looking for a light meal. We stayed back, and he went on his merry way. I called the neighbors in the morning to give them a heads up.