Critter Science
The Science of Animals
The tailless whip scorpion, aka the whip spider, looks a little like a cornucopia of different types of arachnids. With long, skinny legs they look like a spider, but nope. It’s not a spider. Its first pair of legs end in antennae that are used to help it see and locate prey, as they can’t
The Arizona bark scorpion can be found from southern California, throughout southern Arizona, into the western parts of New Mexico, the southern parts of Utah, and in Mexico (notably in Baja California, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Sonora Mexico). In the wild, they prefer to hide in
Imagine a scorpion up to 6 inches long, from tip to tip! Welcome the desert hairy scorpion. Few critters give people the heebie jeebies like scorpions. The predominant species of scorpion in the southwest is the Arizona bark scorpion. Those are
The venomous scorpions have been around for millions of years and the only thing that has really changed at all is their reduction in size. Scorpions are survivors with a venomous punch. Most scorpions have the venom to cause pain, swelling, and numbness.