Did some scrap removal back home in Louisiana about 8 years ago, never seen any scorpions until then. I put my hand under a short chunk of I-beam half embedded in the ground, next thing I knew, felt like a red hot nail got drove into the tip of my middle finger of my left hand. I yanked my hand outta there and the I beam rolled over and exposed a pinkish-orange scorpion with a brown back, called a striped bark scorpion. It was like someone roasted my finger with a zippo continuously for about 15 seconds and the pain stayed that way for about 20 minutes. Bad aches shot up my arm and stayed that way for the rest of the day. Also put a taste of metal in my mouth for a few hours. Not much fun