We shoot wildlife, all kinds. Alligators, Cottonmouth, Boar, it doesn’t matter. In fact the more teeth/talons the better.
They all have something in common… they are outside.
Meet a Black Scorpion. Adults grow to 15 centimeters (6 inches). This was an adult, I’m positive. In fact, at one point it looked 15 feet.
They are common in the tropics, toxic, but probably not deadly. Really ! Tell that to a small dog (who promptly was ushered out of the room). We did battle, they are no push over, we persevered.
Did I mention they first thing we did was grab our cameras.
Is that post mortem?
I get scorpions in the house from time-to-time, especially when it is really dry out. I kill them with a fly swatter. Usually smaller than this one.
That was a few moments after I spotted him. Way to big for a fly scatter 😂. He sat there watching. A fly shatter would have p—— him off. Hit it with flat side of a broom and it didn’t do much. Maybe 5 inches, a ‘bark scorpion’ I think.
LOL…fly swatter !!!
We generally welcome spiders in the house to help keep the small pests down. I am pretty sure this one would not be welcomed. Fortunately our environment would host them unless someone decided to let one loose.
Oops. Would NOT host them.
This one was certainly not welcome. Scared the xxxx out of me. 😀
Wow! Glad this wasn’t in my house, I would have been out of the house real quick. LOL!
It was a surprise, a ‘big’ surprise 😂
A surprise you would probably rather not have again! 🙂
Amen to that
YIKES! Nothing like that in snow country 😏
We don’t have them in the swamp lands of South Carolina either. Florida in the marshes is definitely tropics. I’ll take my Alligators any day 😀
Yuck! It would look huge to me too. They give me the Willie’s.
Not one of my favorites, and we shoot in swamps all the time. They are nasty creepy things. And this one… the king size variety. I didn’t know the US had any big species.
I think in places where it gets really hot and humid, all such things are possible.
As I can attest to LOL.