path1 wrote:
If you have experience about scorpions please comment. Currently in Yuma AZ on RV lot. I'm supposed to take out a small section Aloe Vera plants (2 feet wide and 6 feet long) growing next to our shed that is real old and falling apart. So going to put in new and bigger shed, so plants got to go. Started ripping the aloe vera out and was greeted by couple very small scorpions, maybe 1 or 1 1/2 long, very clear in color. Tried looking up on google and found info on about everything except how to make them move. In the past I've lived in areas that bears were sometimes a problem and if you left them alone they would leave you alone usually. I tend to think scorpions are the same way. But don't know for sure.
Does this sound reasonable? Being they like the desert, I'm thinking about watering the aloe vera plants, lots and lots of water and they won't like that there area has been turned into rain forest and will move on. If they do move on, are they like mice and can make it to inside of RV?
Is that a good plan or do you know something else that will work.
P.S. wife is going nuts. I just want to them to go away and not into RV.
The poor Scorpion is just trying to eke out an existence on this planet just like we are. I have had lots of experience with them in SE Asia and other places. Personally I see no need to poison the poor things...they are shy, generally afraid and dont bother people unless you bother them. Let them have their habitat and they are unlikely to invade yours.
However if you do find one in the house the best way to deal with it is this: get a small stick, wave the stick in front of the scorpion until its claws grab it. Then pick it up by it's stinger end and carry the poor frightened thing outside and put it on the ground away from the house. This is how I and all my household staff dealt with scorpions in SE Asia.
Learning to live with the earths creatures without poisoning them and killing them needlessly helps keep things in balance.
