Video: Cats May Not Be Man’s Best Friend, But They Sure Are The Scorpion’s Worst Enemy
September 21st, 2007 | by Ginnie | (Visited 67,822 times)
Craving more deadly critters? Here’s another video filled post for Arachnid fans!
Living in Arizona, scorpions, specifically the bark scorpions most common in Arizona, look for refuge and a cool shady place to rest. This may be your shoes, the leg of your pants, or even inside a nice pair of boxer briefs. As long as there is steady food in your house for scorpions to eat, they will likely live alongside you.
Unfortunately, you can’t really exterminate for scorpions. There are several items on the market that claim to kill scorpions, but because scorpions do not groom themselves, they do not ingest the poison you may cover them with. The only real solution is to kill any food source they may have (namely crickets), and get used to shaking out bedsheets and clothing before use if you’ve seen any in your house.
Or as this video shows, you could get an animal that eats scorpions!
Cat vs Scorpion
Housecats are curious animals that patrol and play at night. Unfortunately for scorpions, dinner time is night time. Having lived in Arizona nearly all my life, I’ve never personally seen a scorpion in any of the places I’ve lived. Alive at least. I’ve found half a claw here, half a tail there. I never really put two and two together until talking with a coworker who seems to get stung by scorpions in his house at LEAST once or twice every 3-4 months.
The difference? I’ve always had cats.
After researching more about other Arizonan experiences with scorpions, I was pretty freaked out at the idea that I had a nice new house, but no longer had any cats. I remembered back to an apartment my mother lived in, where scorpions literally fell from the roof at one point. As I continued to read some more articles like these:
Prospective Resident re: scorpions
Isn’t it a little early for Scorpions?
Got a question about scorpions…
I can’t say I was feeling any better!
If you’re craving some more scorpion action, here are a few other videos that were pretty cool…
Mangrove Monitor Eating A Scorpion
Scorpion vs Rose Hair Taranchula
Scorpion vs Black Widow
Scorpion vs Camel Spider
** Update **
Thanks to one of our readers, it was also pointed out that Grasshopper Mice can eat scorpions too!
Grasshopper Mouse vs Scorpion
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Oh. My. God.
man, those videos are freakin sick. what kinda nine year old videotapes captured animals fighting each other for fun?
when i was about 9 i had found both a tarantula and 2 scorpions in the same day. (quite the day indeed, very pleased with myself) I had no idea what either of them actually ate, so i decided to put them in the same bucket, scorpions won and they finished off about 1/4 of the spider before my dad killed them both. Looking back I think it was a good idea, and im suprised i had them for the week that i did.
Anyway, at 9 if i had had access to a video recorder (or a vcr to watch it on) I wouldve taped it without a doubt. It sits about the same level as putting coins on the train tracks, or any # of other stupid things kids do. Fighting bugs does not equate to or lead to shooting cats with a bb gun or torturing squirls for fun, or murdering whole familys with a chain saw, thats a whole different set of problems.
When I was around that age (maybe a year or two younger), we used to put PVC pipes in the ground to trap all sorts of insects around the new construction. Usually we could round up close to 100 large ants, black widows, spiders, and we always seemed to find big tomato bugs.
We did all sorts of those insect fights. Idle hands are the devil’s playthings as they say. This was in between rock fights in the field or seeing who could pee on our neighbor’s electrified fence the longest. Needless to say we didn’t have cable back then, lol.
Insects are not animals.
Are they vegetables? Minerals?
Cats May Not Be Man’s Best Friend…
Shit shit, I’m NEVER living in Arizona.
Heh, I say the same about states where Brown Recluses live.. Necrosis scares the CRAP out of me
I like how the mouse gnawed on his tail, exactly what the little beast deserved…
Interesting, yes.
But how can people *enjoy* watching that???
What is so funny about watching living beings suffer and die?
Some people are sick.
How can people enjoy seeing fictional suffering and death?
Its fun. They’re only living things. Given the chance I’d put two people in a giant glass bowl and film it.
Most of us find it funny, what about sickness being not standing not understanding life.
how stupid are you guys!
what do imagine you happens, when you put such animals in a small cup? most of time they try to escape, funny thing that there are only round walls.
but yeah, they look so cruel, that’s interesting..
STUPID AMERICANS!
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