The Scorpion King
Imagine an eight-foot venemous scorpion, towering over you and ready to strike!
Living in the UK, you’d be surprised to find one of these crawling across your bedroom floor, wouldn’t you?
So would I, to be honest. There’s only one sort of scorpion found in the UK (Euscorpius flavicaudis) and this isn’t it. Nor did I find it crawling across my bedroom floor.
Nope. It was encountered (not by me) crawling across a bedroom floor on one of the Greek islands, and was only later — and tentatively — identified by me as Euscorpius carpathicus candiota using the wealth of information available at Jan Ove Rein’s The Scorpion Files (including this photo).
Fortunately for the person who found it, Euscorpius carpathicus candiota (candy for short?) is described as being only ‘mildly venemous’ and as a ‘harmless scorpion, which will rarely use its stinger’. Just as well really, considering it is ‘not uncommon in human habitations’… although on the down side, this reduces the ‘death-defying’ element of re-telling the story.
Apparently, this sort of scorpion glows under ultra-violet light (I’m not sure why — maybe they are forgeries?). Now that would look impressive.
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erm.. am I missing something here?
What’s the connection? Why are you blogging about a scorpion someone found on a Greek bathroom floor ?
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