If you like camping and want to enjoy your time out in the outdoors then you will need to have the proper items of camping equipment. The camping lantern is an essential among other things which must be taken along on a camping trip as it can make your time a little brighter and more [...]
Treat scorpion stings as you would a black widow bite. A black widow spider can be recognized by a distinctive red hourglass on its stomach. Only the female spider bites, not the male and it has a toxic venom. In the beginning pain is not so severe, but as with the scorpion sting severe local [...]
So many people are afraid of the ‘dreaded’ black widow spider and its venom Black widow spiders strike fear in the hearts of many people around the world Many people are fearful of all spiders because they don’t know how to identify one species of spider from another. By educating yourself on how to identify [...]
It is when one has to spend the night out in the open that one wishes for the cozy bed to sleep on. Blankets, bed sheets and pillows have been used to make it as close to a bed as possible. But not really. These efforts gradually transformed into sleeping bags. Resembling a blanket with [...]
Be Scorpion aware for a safe, enjoyable day in nature, outdoors. It is always advisable to take some time out of your busy life in the urban area and spend some quality time out in the nature. It is not necessary to go far and out to do that. You can find a spot in [...]
Among the scorpions in North America, the ‘unpleasant’ ones are typically to be found in New mexico so be careful when you go there and be ‘scorpion aware’ Seen from the outside the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico are nothing to write home about and consist of a few gray rock formations and a bit [...]
The black widow spider is a serious piece of biological engineering… and I wouldn’t suggest you mess with this deadly babe! Although there is more than one type of widow spider globally, the best known and most feared one is the black widow spider of North America. And this is because of their extremely toxic venom which is more [...]
It seems the scorpion habitat has extended to hiding in planes and men’s pants! A gentleman from Vermont apparently managed to survive ok after being bitten twice by a scorpion that had made its way up his leg on the inside of his pants. How it had managed to find its way onto a United Airlines flight [...]
A black widow spider can be recognized by red hourglass on its stomach. Only the female bites, and it has a neurotoxic venom. In the beginning pain is not severe, but severe local pain rapidly develops. The pain will slowly spread over the entire body and settle in the abdomen and legs. Abdominal cramps [...]
It is commonly believed amongst scientific circles that our friends the scorpions have been living on earth for more than a few hundred million years (about 430 million) and in that time have grown into many different varieties and types to cope with all of the different environmental challenges they have faced. These arachnids, along with their spider cousins are [...]
Scorpions are part of the arachnid species of insects along with spiders like the black widow spider and with both of these the main way to treat bites is to avoid them. It is a good idea to familiarise yourself with what they look like and where they tend to hang out. In this case [...]
A scorpion is a small creature, about 6-10 cm long. It has a segmented body, with two poisonous glands in its tail. It holds its victim with its claws and pushes forward the tail and injects the poison into the body. The scorpion is nocturnal in nature, i.e. it moves around during the night. During [...]
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