Growing up our house was one of the first built on the street. So for years we were surrounded by fields. I remember having to check my shoes in the morning before putting them on to make sure there wasn’t a scorpion in there.
When we moved into a new development in Las Vegas a few decades ago, the best thing we had for detecting scorpions was our cat. He’d follow em along the baseboards, signaling to me to come and get em. After a couple years, they were eventually just plain poisoned out of the area.
I grew up in S. Fla. We had the same ritual every morning.
BTW... scorpions glow under UV light. So grab that UV flashlight and go hunting. :^)