Comments on: Scorpions, you have crossed the line

By: Creeped out !!!!!

Creeped out !!!!! — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:02:53 +0000

I moved into my house a lttle more than two months ago and have seen THREE of these scary things. I have asked my neighbors and they have all told me they have no problems with em in their homes. My house does back up closer to the woods, but only by a few feet and i have only seen them as i they are coming in through my garage which is in the front of my house. I have no idea what to do or where to even begin to get rid of these things. Seeing the first one scare me, but now i feel like they are living with me. It’s to much for me, i’m reay to move but honestly don’t think i would wanna pack in boxes considering i’ve read they tend to stay in and around them. EEEEEK.

By: Seven Quick Takes « purpuraria

Seven Quick Takes « purpuraria — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:49:08 +0000

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By: Janet M S

Janet M S — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:52:16 +0000

We have a house in North East GA and I was stung last Saturday night at about 2am while sleeping! One had crawled in the bed….I am a little freaked out, as our bed is pretty high and I thought that would alleviate any bug type thing gettinginto the bed, given that it is a weekend home and we are not there all the time, not to mention that I slept with it in the bed until it stung me…..I now have a big red welt on my chest where it stung me, and yesterday felt quite sick and had a terrible headache… I have had them in my shoes but never in the bed, so that was a little disturbing!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:16:33 +0000

I am new to the "scorpian" region (Arizona) I 1st saw 1 at my garage door, then at my entry way, now today for the 1st time I just saw in my Kitchen! they have enterd the house, this is now war!! I am afraid to sleep,what has worked for you? I am in major scorpian google mode! help

By: Mindyleigh

Mindyleigh — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:20:00 +0000

I don’t have any stories involving the creepy crawling scorpions found in your house. My only scorpions story involves the band the Scorpions. I went backstage and held a beer for Klaus Mein once as he signed autographs. I was (gasp) only 13 or so at the time.

Let’s hear it for conversion!

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:56:00 +0000

Holy Crow! That’d be it for me. My husband, me and our two toddlers tried out The Texas Hill Country for two years but I couldn’t take the scorpions! Wte had an exterminator come with no avail. The fact hat the tennant next door found a rattler in her apartment was enough for this chicken to move back to Virginia-seriously.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:09:00 +0000

Hi, googled about scorpions and ended up here. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada and have a 2 1/2 year old daughter. We have lived in this house two years and have scorpions, too. I sleep so much less these days. I have found at least 15 in my house in the past year alone. No stings, knock on wood, but all of our neighbors have been stung. I worry most about the vents. One of our neighbors said they crawl into the attic during the winter and then come down through the ceiling when it gets too hot or cold. I was actually bathing my daughter last winter and one fell into the tub as she was bathing. My Dad is *supposed* to put mesh boxes around our vents soon. I killed one on my kitchen table last night. Ug.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:34:00 +0000

Here how you get rid of them, both effective and fun...

Around here the like to nest in block walls and get in through the cracks. Find the spots they tend to be outside via a blacklight.

First, eliminate their food. Have a exterminator spray the exterior yards. Exterminators are good at getting rid of "normal" bugs, they suck at getting rid of scorpions.

Now, get a powder that is effective (delta dust, DE, boric acid, etc) and dust in the cracks of the walls (or other favorite hiding places). Dust around the perimiter of the house, entry ways, any place a critter could enter.

Now follow up a treatment of Bifen or Cy-Kick on the exterior.

You're almost there...

To expedite the process you need to hunt and kill them outside.

The way I do it:
I have a LED UV Flashlight from ebay. I have it mounted to a full auto AirSoft AK-47 that shoots 410 Feet per second (yea... big boy toy). I simply patrol the exterior each night.

Populations have gone down from dozens spotted at night to only a few, and the insecticide has only been down a few days, though I have been hunting and killing them at night for a couple weeks.

My prediction is after another couple weeks they will be virtually extinct to my property combining the chemical + human element.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:59:00 +0000

We have scorpions too.

We live in the North Georgia mountains. We moved here a year ago and found scorpions. YUCK. My daughter was stung once when she picked up a towel where one lay hiding. Yea, they love to hide under clothes. I read up about them and saw about the light that you could shine on them. I felt the same way. What if I turned it on and found them everywhere. I don't think I could live in the house after that.

Thankfully we've only seen about 10-12 in the whole year. They surely do love the sinks and drains.

Have you gotten rid of them? If so, tell us how.

Julie

By: Renee'

Renee' — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:39:00 +0000

i just found this site because i was loking for ways to get the little bastards out of my house too. My two year old daughter has been stung twice and myself once…and yes it hurts! i cant sleep at night because im watching the baby monitor(video) in case something happens or im watching the walls for crawling scorpions… havent found any pestisides that work. I love my house (only been here six months) but now im ready to move!! ~temple, texas