Scorpions are more numerous this year than in any year in the oast dince moving to the central Texas hill country.
Almost every evening for the past two to three weeks when i go out on the back porch after night fall and tirn the light on, there are two to three scorpions wandering around.
I go back and get shoes on and step on them and kill them so that that will not sting me or the dog later when we are just relaxing on the back porch.
Well now they have made there way into the house. I was in the office working on my computer and put my barefoot down on the floor right on top of one. It stung my foot right on my little toe. At first i was in a lot of pain and could not believe that i had been stung. I had jumped up and turned all the lights on so that it was very bright in the office.
I searched and.searched for it for about 30 minutes but could not find it. I finally sat back down but leaving all the lights on. I glanced at the floor because i thought i saw a shadow moving and there it was at the eadge of the rug on the opposite side of them room from where it had stung me. Needless to say I killed it
Then two nights later i was aslin bed and I turned over right on top of a scorpion which stung me several times in the back of my thigh. I can not remember waking up and moving that fast in a long time. I stripped the bed in search of it because there was no way i was getting back into bed with that thing around. I finally found it half smashed about five foot from the bed. After it had stung me i was slapping at my leg while jumping out of bed. I must have hit it and stunned it during that time of my frantic movements. I spent several hours on the couch that night before clamming down enough to try to go back to sleep.
I next day i was back in the office again and heard something scratching. It sounded like a small mouse scratching on the wall. I finally located where the sound was coming from. It was from behind a lap board that i use while sitting on a small couch in the office. I had leaned it up against the wall on the floor. When i moved it. This scorpion was behind it. I grabbed my phone got this photo and immediately killed it. It was about three inches long and 1 inch wide. I had never seen one that big yet since moving here.
The exterminators came the next day and sprayed so i am hoping I don’t find them in the house again.
