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Old 06-20-2007, 10:01 PM
 
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I am starting to worry about these, especially since my husband is a bug magnet and has terrible reactions to even a mosquito bite...

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Old 06-20-2007, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Dallas (Devonshire)
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I am starting to worry about these, especially since my husband is a bug magnet and has terrible reactions to even a mosquito bite...

Steve Stoler | WFAA.com (http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/sstoler/stories/wfaa060823_mo_scorpionsightings.2c0b6b13.html - broken link)

That is a very new neighborhood in the process of being developed. The only areas you'll usually find any scorps are where they are being displaced from their environment. If you move to an established neighborhood or even an established suburb, I can assure you it won't be a problem. If this were West Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, I'd be more concerned.
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Old 06-20-2007, 11:04 PM
 
Location: The Big D
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That is a very new neighborhood in the process of being developed. The only areas you'll usually find any scorps are where they are being displaced from their environment. If you move to an established neighborhood or even an established suburb, I can assure you it won't be a problem. If this were West Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, I'd be more concerned.
This is true. The last time I saw a scorpion in the metroplex was around 1985 in the spring out in the office I was working at in Coppell. Back then Coppell was NOTHING like it is today and most homes were on an acre or more w/ TONS of woods. So yes they were somewhat common. Before that we only saw them at the grandparents lakehouse in east Texas. Even at our place on the lake now I have not seen one in the 16+ years there.
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Old 06-20-2007, 11:56 PM
 
Location: Hot, Humid Texas
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I live in North Texas, and usually the only times you will see these are in brand-new houses. However, when I was a kid, we lived in a brick home out in the country. It wasn't newly built, but we had scorpians pretty bad. We had a fireplace and the scorpians were usually in the fire wood we brought in. My dad had the wood stacked out in the back yard for the whole winter, and no matter how much he would brush the wood off, they still came in with it. I've been stung by them numerous times throughout my life. Its the same with most of my family members. Lucky for us, none posed an extreme threat. They were no worse than a wasp sting. I guess for someone who is allergic though, there would be reason for concern. We feared the centipedes more due to the pain their stings would bring. My mother got stung by one on the foot on our back porch and it made her really sick. Anyway, now that I live in town, I haven't seen a scorpian or centipede in years. We do see tarantulas though.
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:31 AM
 
Location: Wise County, Texas
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We live in an older home in a yet undeveloped area to the north of DFW, and we are still blessed with these little (depending on your perspective) critters. My husband was seated comfortably on the couch about a month ago when he thought he saw something crawling on his leg. He did! It was a scorpion, and it stung him as he moved to swish it aside. The sting felt to him as was described above -- like that of a wasp -- but he was fine after experiencing it and came away with just a tiny welp. Our dog discovered a smaller scopion crawling across the kitchen floor about a week later. There have been none since, thank goodness! We think that these scorpions were probably seeking a dry space in our house due to all of the rain we've been having this spring.

From what I've been able to find on the Internet, the scorpions that call most of Texas home are not deadly, as is a certain breed which inhabits the dry country west and south of the Rio Grande.
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Old 06-21-2007, 02:39 AM
 
Location: Southern California
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I am dreading the answer to this question..but I have 2 young cats that love to bring home every kind of bug and either eat it or just play with it and then forget about it so it ends up crawling under something and scaring the #%%^ out of me. So can a scorpion sting more than once? will it kill a small cat if its stung on the face? One of my cats is very small even though she is full grown. I plan on getting a place with an enclosed garden so they can go out and explore without getting hit by a car. Momof2dfws post sounded like scorpions like being near lakes. Did I understand that correctly? I thought they lived in the sand before I started researching Texas!!
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Old 06-21-2007, 06:35 AM
 
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Thank you all for your comments of "encouragement". Dear daughter and I are all excited about our upcoming trip to visit the area...but we are now starting to wonder if we can live with the worry of these creatures appearing in our house, besides black widows, snakes etc. The most we see around here is a fly or mosquito!
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Old 06-21-2007, 09:07 AM
 
Location: The Big D
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East Texas is sandy soil and lots of woods so they do live out there. LOL!!!
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Old 06-21-2007, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Dallas (Devonshire)
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Thank you all for your comments of "encouragement". Dear daughter and I are all excited about our upcoming trip to visit the area...but we are now starting to wonder if we can live with the worry of these creatures appearing in our house, besides black widows, snakes etc. The most we see around here is a fly or mosquito!
I've lived in the metroplex almost my entire life. The number of scorpions I've seen here: One. In elementary school, a poor girl found a baby scorpion in her sandwich as she was about to take a bite! Needless to say, there were no more lunch trades between me and her from that point on!

I have seen coyotes in Coppell and Plano. You'll even find the occasional armadillo in outlying areas (they're blind as a bat).

When I say you should not be concerned about scorpions, I mean it. If you are moving to a newly developed area it remains a slight possibility, but it's definitely not anything to spend all day worrying about and not something I even associate with the metroplex.

Mosquitos, fire ants, wasps, yellow jackets...These are far more common and can put the hurt on you.
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Old 06-21-2007, 01:25 PM
 
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we have never seen scorpions around our home in Bedford since we moved in new more than 20 yrs agoand it was in development where tree farm existed prior to homes...but I grew up in central TX east of San Antonio and they were pests around there....
I can remember one time when I was young and staying with my aunt--she put on her nightgown which she kept hung on the door of her closet--by the time she pulled it over her head and got her arms in it--a scorpion hiding in the folds started stinging her--got her about 5 times before she could get the gown off and get the scorpion off....
they were all over her house out in the Darst Field oil camp--and in other places--I stepped down on one in my house--and felt like a red-hot needle went through my little toe---

some pets get stung on nose if they are not familiar with them...
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