Gloves and corpions (Gilbert, Cave Creek: new home, buying, scorpions)

[Rachiie]

Thanks for all the help, combining the scorpions with the brown recluse that we found a few weeks back makes me very nervous. I am sure when you have them around all the time it becomes a way of life.. Unfortunately for me this is the first time I have scorpions outside of the zoo! Also I am from the UK, we only have 1 snake that can harm us, finding poisonous things in kitchen scares the bejeepers out of me.

As moving does not see a viable option it seems I will just have to put on my big girl pants and deal!

Again thanks for taking the time with this thread.

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by Rachiie

Thanks for all the help, combining the scorpions with the brown recluse that we found a few weeks back makes me very nervous. I am sure when you have them around all the time it becomes a way of life.. Unfortunately for me this is the first time I have scorpions outside of the zoo! Also I am from the UK, we only have 1 snake that can harm us, finding poisonous things in kitchen scares the bejeepers out of me.

As moving does not see a viable option it seems I will just have to put on my big girl pants and deal!

Again thanks for taking the time with this thread.

Just also be careful outside the home, too. England's venomous snake is the Vipera berus, basically a harmless little snake. The venomous snakes in AZ are more danger than V. berus found in Europe, just be careful.

[twiggy]

Aw, that really sucks! I'm so sorry, it's so crappy dealing with the little buggers on your first move out. I hate em, won't move to a house with them because of all the checking of towels and the beds every night. The shoes, the shower. Enough to drive you nuts!
Well, good luck with the black light, maybe you can move soon.
Next time be sure to look for a place with no scorps. Call the exterminator they had or tell the landlord you want a no scorp clause. There are a lot of homes here with out the creepy little things.

[azkylady2]

I have been so lucky not to have seen any scopions anywhere that I have lived here yet. I feel sorry for you, must be stressful. I think I would move soon as possible, like Twiggy said theres homes here without the issue. I never heard of a no scorp clause, you can really ask for one?

[Rachiie]

Just found another one!! I have put glue pads down all over the place, I am running the risk of sticking to them myself! I did feel for this tiny scorpion, it had its tail stuck to the pad. I hope it was able to advise all of its buddies that the risk danger if they enter

Sad thing is, I have literally become scared of my own shadow, I saw something move quickly and jumped, turns out it was just me!

[twiggy]

Yes, you can tell the real estate or landlord you won't rent a house with scorpions. Tell them to put into your lease that it is void if you see one and can prove with a exterminator you have them. They will find you a place without them.
You can call the exterminator and tell them the zip code and sometimes the address and they will tell you if they have scorpions there.
Drive by the place your interested in and see if you can catch a truck spraying near there or ask the previous tenant or landlord if they use one. Get the number and call.
When I bought my last house I had this as part of the deal at closing that there weren't any scorpions. Went just fine and had no scorpions.
Just with plumbing I can tell you the areas that have a lot of them. They are always by the water supply.

P.S. If they say they use to have them, or they have only seen one or two, they have them and don't take the place. If you don't have them you never see them, EVER! If you've seen one or two then they are there somewhere, you just haven't noticed.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by twiggy

Yes, you can tell the real estate or landlord you won't rent a house with scorpions. Tell them to put into your lease that it is void if you see one and can prove with a exterminator you have them. They will find you a place without them.
You can call the exterminator and tell them the zip code and sometimes the address and they will tell you if they have scorpions there.
Drive by the place your interested in and see if you can catch a truck spraying near there or ask the previous tenant or landlord if they use one. Get the number and call.
When I bought my last house I had this as part of the deal at closing that there weren't any scorpions. Went just fine and had no scorpions.
Just with plumbing I can tell you the areas that have a lot of them. They are always by the water supply.

P.S. If they say they use to have them, or they have only seen one or two, they have them and don't take the place. If you don't have them you never see them, EVER! If you've seen one or two then they are there somewhere, you just haven't noticed.

I always have a little chuckle when people say they don't have scorpions. Not seeing them is precious little reassurance. They see you.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by Rachiie

I have just found the 2nd bark scorpion in my house within a week. Just after some advice... Do you think a scorpion sting would go through a pair of thick gardening gloves. I am not planning on handling them I just want to feel a little safer when handling other things around my house. I am somewhat freeking out at the moment.

Sorry folks, the title should read scorpions, corpions don't really scare me!!!

Scorpions are very skittish and non-aggressive. If you just make some noise when moving things, like out in the yard, the scorpions take off and you won't see them. I had a big pile of bricks we were using to put down a patio. Each layer alternated - crickets on one, scorpions on the next. I picked the whole pile without gloves just by tapping a block on the pile. I could see everyone scurry down the pile. When I hit the bottom row the scorpions scattered around the yard. I managed to whack a bunch of them (I kill bugs that will hurt me and leave the others in peace). It was a good day.

BTW, there are no brown recluse spiders in AZ (unless they hitched a ride). There is a desert cousin that is fairly rare and does not infest human habitats to the extent that the regular brown recluse does. Maybe you had one of them, but most reports of brown recluse around here are harmless species. You need to check the eyes. The toxicology of the desert one is not well known, but it is believed to be capable of inflicting similar bites and similar consequences as the brown recluse. Keep an eye out for the black widows. They are everywhere outside.

[twiggy]

Thats strange because my neighbor said she was bitten by a brown recluse and had to go to the hospital because her foot was turning black. I didn't know they were not here.
It was on her porch I think.
I see wolf spiders, they look like them to the untrained eye, I thought she might have just got a black widow bite.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by twiggy

Thats strange because my neighbor said she was bitten by a brown recluse and had to go to the hospital because her foot was turning black. I didn't know they were not here.
It was on her porch I think.
I see wolf spiders, they look like them to the untrained eye, I thought she might have just got a black widow bite.

The desert version is here, of course, but from what I can determine, bites are far and few between. People probably refer to the desert one as a brown recluse even though it technically is only a relative of that terrible beast.

Even the regular recluse rarely bites anyone. I have a place in OK and the crawl space is absolutely infested with them. They gave me the willies at first, living among all those nasty, poisonous spiders. It's not like a scorpion now and then, these things are thicker than flies. They say they come out at night, but I never got bit and my neighbors act like "What spiders?". Of course they are like that about tornadoes too. I think that the poisonous things we all fear are near the bottom when it comes to the real risks of this place or any other, for that matter.