I wish our Scorpions were one inch. They are big and black. Some of them 6-7” including their tails. Kids like to catch them and cut the stinger off and play with them. If you are outside from June- November, you better have shoes on. They come out at night. Disgusting beasts.
Where do you live? I live in Northern Wisconsin and just want to know if I should move even farther north?
I didn’t know you had big giant ones in Ruskin, I thought all native species east of the Mississippi were these little brownish gray ones [I’m not far from you, up in Pasco and have never seen them here.] The ones you describe sound like excapees from the pet trade that have become well established. They aren’t pretty, that’s for sure.