We have a very bad scorpion problem at my house. During the cooler parts of the year, they apparently go dormant and they aren't such a problem. But during the hotter parts of the year, they are everywhere. We have to check our beds at night before we go to bed. We have to check our clothes in the morning before we get dressed. We have all been stung several times. My daughter was stung four times by one that was in her shirt when she was getting dressed, and she was weak and nauseated all day. I have been stung in my sleep. I have been lying in bed and suddenly seen one walk across the covers only a few inches from my eyes. It's really bad.
I grabbed all these photos from various websites, except for the last photo of the mother scorpion with scorplings all over her back. I took that one myself yesterday while I was working.
We have vinagaroons in Texas, but I have never actually seen a living one, only one that had been preserved as a specimen.
Scorpions are not spiders, but they are kin
Like mites and ticks, they are all arachnids
The scorpion has a painful sting that can make you swoon
Unlike its stingless cousin, the vinagaroon
It likes to live in sand, where it's easy to dig
It looks just like its ancient ancestors, but it's not as big
It grabs insects with its pincers, that's a kind of claw
And kills them with the stinger on its telson, that's what its tail is called
Oh scorpion, oh scorpion, please don't sting me
Your sting is much more painful than a honeybee's
Oh scorpion, oh scorpion, please understand
I'll leave you alone if you stay outside in your sand
It can live for a long long time with hardly any food
It can freeze and then just walk away when it warms up good
A mother scorpion keeps her babies upon her back
But she won't hesitate to eat them, if other food she lacks
Oh scorpion, oh scorpion, please don't sting me
Your sting is much more painful than a honeybee's
Oh scorpion, oh scorpion, in my house don't come
Your venom makes my lips and my hands go numb