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Borrowing scorpions

opistophalmus schlechteri

Description:

Found on one of our scorpion hunts in the mountains surrounding our town; Windhoek, in Namibia

Habitat:

Under rock in hill escarpment

Notes:

Unfortunately only 2 year old photo. But at least I made start into this stunning site!

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14 Comments

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 10 years ago

Wonderful!

koixtreme
koixtreme 10 years ago

Thanxzzz Malcom!
And thanxzzz to all comments and aspecially the warm welcomings!
This community rocks!!!

Nice spotting and welcome to Project Noah.
There is an error in the Common name field, the scientific name is mis-spelt, should be schlechteri. Common names are Burrowing Scorpions, Tri-colored Scorpions or Hissing Scorpions, you could put one of these in the Common name field if you wish as the Scientific name has its own field.
Common names can be found by doing a Google search on the scientific name and can be in any language, your own, or that of the country where you saw it.

Fyn Kynd
Fyn Kynd 10 years ago

Beautiful spotting, koixtreme! Welcome to Project Noah!

injica
injica 10 years ago

wow :) nice catch

Maria dB
Maria dB 10 years ago

What a stunning first posting on Noah - welcome to the Project! I don't think I would let a child or be willing myself to hold it - it definitely looks very scary! Looking forward to your future postings :)

koixtreme
koixtreme 10 years ago

Thanxzzz for the nice comments!
Scorpions are really fascinating creatures and misunderstood. These ones with the thin sting and strong pinchers, only paralyze their prey and hold them with the pinchers while they start to eat.

João Burini
João Burini 10 years ago

That's beautiful :D

Kellyspubvista
Kellyspubvista 10 years ago

Wow! Really scary cool!

ira080808
ira080808 10 years ago

goosebumps :)

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

A lot of persuasion would be needed until I allowed one of these walk on my hand...

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 10 years ago

I have moved your really cool scorpion to Arthropods. :-)

koixtreme
koixtreme 10 years ago

Thank you for your professional approach in advising me. Sorry for braking the rules in even my first spotting!

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Hi kioxtreme, that is a huge scorpion! Would you mind cropping the picture so the childs face doesn't show? Cropping will also put more focus on the pretty scorpion. We don't allow human faces in pictures on this site to protect privacy, I hope you can understand this :) Have a look at our FAQ, it explains the "rules" of the site.
There are also several missions for wildlife of Southern Africa you can join and add lots more spottings to!
Welcome to Project Noah and we hope you enjoy the site! If you have any questions that the FAQ doesn't answer, feel free to jump on one of the chats at the bottom of the page. Look forward to seeing more of your spottings!

koixtreme
Spotted by
koixtreme

Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia

Spotted on Jul 26, 2011
Submitted on Jul 26, 2013

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