Posted on 08/16/2008 6:19:43 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A scorpion was found Friday on a Deerfield, WI area farm, captured and turned over to the Dane County Humane Society.
Authorities speculated it might be an escaped pet.
A town of Oregon man, who asked not to be named, said in an interview that the scorpion was found during yardwork at his parents' farm.
The creature was captured -- carefully -- by putting an aquarium on top of it, then sliding cardboard underneath the aquarium and flipping it over, he said, adding that it didn't make any aggressive moves.
He then used duct tape to seal the aquarium, put it in his trunk and brought it to his home, where it spent the night in the garage.
He knew it was a scorpion, but only realized it was one of the poisonous varieties when researching it on the Internet Friday night.
"I realized it was not something to be playing with," he said.
He didn't have second thoughts about capturing it, though.
"There's kids and cats and dogs" at the farm, he said.
After he contacted authorities on Saturday morning, a Humane Officer came out and took possession of the scorpion.
There are about 1,300 species of scorpions worldwide, according to www.doyourownpestcontrol.com. Most are not poisonous, except for two species found in the southwestern states like Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
Scorpions are nocturnal, predatory animals that feed on a variety of insects, spiders, centipedes, and other scorpions. The larger scorpions occasionally feed on vertebrates, such as smaller lizards, snakes, and mice.
“Who would hesitate to kill a venomous vermin?”
A perverted liberal...who would also sympathise and slobber over a rapist, a murderer, or an effing terrorist...
...but who wouldn’t hestitate to abort an innocent baby.
Sick bastards.
I used to collect scorpians in jars and watch them fight whatever we put in there with em. They are everywhere here under just about any flat rock. Never been stung by one, but I hear that the ones we have aren’t deadly.
I can’t believe someone on a farm would actually do all that to save one...
Agggggh!
(photoshopped or not, I’m takin’ a Hellfire to that thing!)
You got that right!
Scorpions are not normally found in Wi?
I use bug bombs regularly in my outbuildings, so I’m not afraid of scorpions or brown recluses as much as before. I got a brown recluse bite one time (at least the doctor thought it was, black center and red around it) but it went away without treatment. He thought it might have been a very low amount of venom (toxin?) or that I was naturally immune.
But I had no idea there were scorpions in Shannon County (where I was stung) until after I got that bad sting. Then my neighbors said, sure, there are scorpions in Southern Mo.
Heh. Wish I’d known...
I have heard, but do not know for sure, that the main cause of the growing area of immense swelling and then necrotic or dead flesh resulting from the recluse’s bite is not from the venom that the spider injects, but is actualy an infection of the anerobic bacteria living on the fangs.
This country has truly lost it’s freedom when we have to protect the life of a deadly predator instead of taking out the trash.
I must agree.
That’s a big dog Judith Anne !
She told me she was bitten by a spider when she was a little girl.
We’ve got them all over No. California. Some years back my son captured one and kept it in an aquarium for months. He named it Sadam.
I bought him for a birthday present for my husband four years ago last March.
He’s much larger than in the picture, now. He was only a 2 yo puppy then.
That’s where I got him. I have no connection with them, except I love my dog, and they are GREAT breeders.
Horses and dogs. How can you go wrong ?
We owned a Golden Retriever, Prior Lake Jake, when we lived in Minnesota. He was a wonderful animal during his all too short life. if we get another dog, it will have to be a water dog.
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