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Heterometrus spinifer
Also known as the Giant Forest Scorpion. A large species with adults growing up to near 5". This one was an unusual blue green colour as usually black with a greenish glaze to the exoskeleton.
Found on the trail in deep forest in the Tanjung Puting National park in southern Borneo.
This particular individual had run foul of swarming ants and was extremely agitated. My policy is to not interfere with natural occurrences like this but I was most relieved to see this scorpion scuttle up a tree and appear relatively unharmed from its ant experience.
Spotted on Mar 13, 2016
Submitted on Apr 28, 2016
16 Comments
Thank you Jim. This guy looked like a huge tank in the middle of a battlefield. The ants were being very aggressive and I was amazed to see the scorpion walk away! It sure wasn't happy!!
From the ant's point of view, this guy is a T-Rex...I am impressed as well, nice capture Triggs!
Thank you Polilla, Neil and Antonio. Really appreciate the feed back.
Great capture Triggs,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Nice one, triggs. What an amazing creature. A much-deserved SOTD, so congratulations to you. And happy to hear it survived its ant encounter.
Thank you Luis.
Congrats triggsturner!
Thank you James, Stephanie and Sunny for your comments.
Thank you Lisa for the SOTD. Honoured, it's quite made my day :)
Thank you Leana for your comment. Most appreciated.
Nice find triggsturner... Congrats..
Congratulations! What a great spotting!
Congrats
Congratulations triggsturner, this intriguing scorpion is our Spot of the Day!
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Stunning! Great spot triggsturner!
My pleasure Polilla. I have never seen one this colour before either. Be interesting to know if it's a sub or something.