help me get rid of scorpions (new house, scorpion, living in)

[jenrodarte]

I Have Lived In My New House For About Two Months And Have Scorpions All Over My House!!! I Have Three Small Children And Thank God None Of Them Have Been Stung!!! I Need Someones Help To Let Me Know How To Get Rid Of Them!!!

[kdog]

Call An Exterminator!!!

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by kdog

Call An Exterminator!!!

Indeed.

Ken

[infosearcher]

Get you some powered sulfur, mix with water in a pump garden sprayer, spray all around the exterior of your home, where the little devils might crawl into your house. They absorb the sulfur thru their feet (legs), and it is basically instant death, so they never live long enough to enter your house. I have to do this a couple of times during spring/summer months to keep them out of my house. Works everytime. Good luck!

[NYtoAZ]

Thanks infosearcher. My husband and I are in the process of finding a new home in Tartesso. To say that I am a little nervous about scorpions is putting it mildly. In know it's a fact that there are scorpions in AZ and that they're going to wind up in my house eventually but I don't have to go down without a fight. I will definitely be spraying the exterior with that sulfur mix, have the house sealed AND get an exterminator to spray on a monthly basis. Am I paranoid or what? By the way, if there is anyone out there living in Tartesso now and having an unusual problem with scorpions let me know. Thanks. Just want to say that even with the scorpions, black widows, snakes, etc. AZ is just too beautiful to pass up.

[esselcue]

New homes are more likely to have bugs of any sort. Just use a good exterminating product and the scorpions will gradually diminish. I would rather have a scorpion than a centipede...hate those thing!

[bigtrees]

Originally Posted by jenrodarte

I Have Lived In My New House For About Two Months And Have Scorpions All Over My House!!! I Have Three Small Children And Thank God None Of Them Have Been Stung!!! I Need Someones Help To Let Me Know How To Get Rid Of Them!!!

Scorpions are very difficult to get rid of. The serious suggestions - pest control service - is the best one. The service will spray a perimeter around your house and it should help on the scorpions but will take care of the black widow spiders for sure.

Scorpions are very resistant to any sort of pesticide. I've thought of using a small nuclear bomb in my house but they're probably resistant to that as well.

However, cats are immune to the stinger and love to eat them. If you're hankering for a cat, this may be a good excuse to get one.

[Puddy4LyF]

About 4 times per year, we get a small Arizona Bark Scorpion rolling through the house. I turned one into a little pet (he was a baby when I found him) and "Steve" is pretty neat. I know no one WANTS these scorpions, but I've learned they're pretty fun -- they're not at all aggressive, never once been mad or attempted to sting anything but his prey (crickets) - Don't be too scared of these critters -- they're seemingly quite friendly.

Definitely spray around the house, but instead of killing the ones you find, maybe move them back outside?

[frogandtoad]

Also make sure the vents of your house don't have beds under them in case they fall out of the vents (they can get built into the walls in a new house--this happened to us).

Teach your kids to wear slippers at night. At the time we had a 2 yo and even at that age, the kids knew not to get up at night w/o having their slippers on.

An exterminator helped with our scorpions (we had lots too), but. a slight downside to the exterminator is that sometimes they stumble around 1/2 dead in the daytime after spraying (the scorpions, not the exterminator )...for a couple of days each month after spraying, we'd find them in the middle of the day, right in the middle of the room. Clearly they were "on their way out" as we could easily squish them (usually they are so fast!) but I'm sure they'd still sting if you stepped on them so keep an eye out for a couple of days after the spraying is done.

As for the cat, our cat would sit there, walk up to one, watch it leave. No interest whatsoever in scorpions--maybe we needed an AZ-born cat!

[Puddy4LyF]

Originally Posted by frogandtoad

...as we could easily squish them (usually they are so fast!) but I'm sure they'd still sting if you stepped on them so keep an eye out for a couple of days after the spraying is done.

They can certainly still sting, but why squish them dead? They're not aggressive or interested in harming. You would even be safe touching them with your bare hands as long as they haven't been rattled... really, they're not human killers -- wouldn't it be a bit more humane to place a mayonaisse jar down and escort the scorpion out rather than mash it to be bits? Seems a bit knee-jerk.