If You are Squeamish Don’t Look

This morning we had quite an adventure, Cowboy Doug was cleaning up the tiles that were taken down to add a screen door to their condo and he found a big black scorpion. Our first thought was to jar it but that did not work out too well and the scorpion made a quick exit, making us jump in the process.

Unfortunately the quick exit turned into work as it darted into the space between the door frame and concrete that used to be covered by tile. Not wanting to leave it in there Cowboy and Kai (sp?) started thinking of ways to get it out, stick, pliers, outdoor bug spray, filling the area with water – none of those worked.

In a last effort to draw our nemesis out I hit ambushed it with some of Leisa’s  skeeter spray and he came staggering out, [ girls to the rescue 🙂 ]  Cowboy was ready to get it [ boy job 🙂 ] but only managed his to cut his tail off. Still not wanting to get caught our king size creepy crawler went for cover under the metal door plate. We sprayed each end of that, he came back out and it was bye bye Mr. Scorpion.

I goggled  scorpion pictures to see if I could identify our unwanted visitor. From what I saw it looked like a Black fat tail scorpion, Androctonus bicolor but I am not 100% on that. I decided to see what I turned up in a scorpions of Belize search and found the following two interesting links: 10 Wild Things to Watch Out For on Belize First by Lan Sluder and Living Wild Scorpions on Belize Magazine.

Now comes the squeamish part, imagine the  long scorpion in the 4th and 5th and 5th picture racing around trying to avoid getting caught in a jar. [ it was slightly longer with it’s full tail ]

Scorpion hiding in the tiles

Trying to catch the scorpion in a jar

Doug cut off the scorpion s tail

Big black scorpion

Black scorpion