AZ Scorpions (work, art, yard)

[NezzaBlue]

I have only been here since May and have not seen a scorpion, but I saw a huge roach that was like the size of a small mouse. It was just sitting on the counter the other day watching me do the dishes. Lord knows how long it was sitting there. Freaked me out. My first thought was "Scorpion"...LOL But it wasn't.

I was a somewhat surprised to see it beacuse I keep a VERY clean house.
I talked to some people at work,and they said that they come right out of the drains in your sink.
Any truth to this?

[Movin Ed]

Originally Posted by NezzaBlue

I have only been here since May and have not seen a scorpion, but I saw a huge roach that was like the size of a small mouse. It was just sitting on the counter the other day watching me do the dishes. Lord knows how long it was sitting there. Freaked me out. My first thought was "Scorpion"...LOL But it wasn't.

I was a somewhat surprised to see it beacuse I keep a VERY clean house.
I talked to some people at work,and they said that they come right out of the drains in your sink.
Any truth to this?

Just wait until you see a Palo Verde Bug - Palo Verde Beetle

Ed

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by Movin Ed

Live in a house in Chandler. My whole street had a lot of issues with scorpions last year. Some people go out at night to hunt and get rid of them. This year hasn't been as bad for me at least. My monthly spraying has helped out a lot but the rains delayed my last spraying. Crickets haven't been as bad this year so I think this has something to do with the decline. We're averaging about one scorpion a year inside (that we know of at least).

Ed

The lack of crickets might be driving the scorpions out indeed. W/o prey, theyre not interested in hanging around too much. However, scorpions have remarkably low metabolic rates, enabling them to go over a year w/o a bite of food nor drop of water. Alot of people think the scorpions have left if they dont see any, when in fact many are probably just taking an extended rest period somewhere.

[NezzaBlue]

Originally Posted by Movin Ed

Just wait until you see a Palo Verde Bug - Palo Verde Beetle

Ed

Thanks, I am really looking forward to it. LOL

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by NezzaBlue

Thanks, I am really looking forward to it. LOL

Or one of these.
http://www.spiderzrule.com/MVC001Fa_small.JPG

Or these:
http://museum.utep.edu/chih/NHCD/images/vinegaroon.jpg

Or these:
http://bugguide.net/images/raw/7HOHN...AZSL8ZQLBH.jpg

MUHUHAHAHA Sleep tight.

[Bummer]

Originally Posted by Movin Ed

Just wait until you see a Palo Verde Bug - Palo Verde Beetle

Ed

LOL @ Ed

Similar critters are referred to as Palmetto Bugs in the Deep South and they are about the size of SMALL CATS! They are so big you can actually hear them walking around at night while slamming cabinet doors in the kitchen.

[Magnum Mike]

Big bugs... We don't see them in the city anymore, but we used to see them around the month of August, on humid mornings. When I was 17, I was driving to work on one Sunday morning in August of 1974, and two of those big flying bugs (I think they were beatles of some kind) they were about 4-5 inches long, and looked like big cockroaches, they were also flying and mating, while crossing 7th Ave, when they hit the windshiled on the Chrysler I drove back then - yeah! a big SPLAT! and I guess I ruined their mating session too! (maybe that's why we don't see them in Phoenix anymore!) Anyhow, they made a big mess on the windshield, and it dried up when I parked the car in the hot sun for 5 hours. I forgot what I used to clean it up with, but I remember it wasn't easy!

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

Anyhow, they made a big mess on the windshield, and it dried up when I parked the car in the hot sun for 5 hours. I forgot what I used to clean it up with, but I remember it wasn't easy!

With bugs that big? A jackhammer!

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

With bugs that big? A jackhammer!

LOL.. It might as well have been a jackhammer!

I was driving about 45-50 MPH (streets were empy that early on Sunday morning) and I saw something flying in my path, and I thought it was a bird initially, but after they hit the windshield and I looked closely, they seperated, and I realized they were those big bugs. One was stuck to the middle portion of the windshield, where they hit, and the other was squashed slightly, but slid down and settled on the windshield wiper, and left a messy streak and it was flopping its legs I would have cleaned the mess before starting work, but I didn't have enough time to go into the grocery store, where I worked at the time, and I had to punch in, so the car sat in the hot August sun for 5 hours and it dried up!

[Bummer]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

Big bugs... We don't see them in the city anymore, but we used to see them around the month of August, on humid mornings. When I was 17, I was driving to work on one Sunday morning in August of 1974, and two of those big flying bugs (I think they were beatles of some kind) they were about 4-5 inches long, and looked like big cockroaches, they were also flying and mating, while crossing 7th Ave, when they hit the windshiled on the Chrysler I drove back then - yeah! a big SPLAT! and I guess I ruined their mating session too! (maybe that's why we don't see them in Phoenix anymore!) Anyhow, they made a big mess on the windshield, and it dried up when I parked the car in the hot sun for 5 hours. I forgot what I used to clean it up with, but I remember it wasn't easy!

Sounds very much like those BIG BUGGERS in the South.

You're super lucky you only ran into one or two . . . consider what it would have been like with DOZENS?