Posted: 9/26/2011 7:23:11 PM EDT
| Ok , I found 3 in my house in the past month. Been in this house around 10 years, first One found about a year ago. Anyone else seeing this ? |
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They went crazy at my house last year. I got stung 3 times over the course of the summer. Killed at least 50. And that's just on a 1/4 acre right smack dab in the middle of spring valley. It was to the point that I shook my shoes out every day (saved me a few times) and kept the sheets off the floor.
Apparently, there really is no effective poison for them. The key is to kill their food source (roaches and other crawlys). I spray the entire house every other month. ALL of it. All the normal bug places, plus I dowse my cinder block wall, the palm trees, bushes, every damn thing. That strategy has worked; I haven't seen more than 1 or 2 this summer. And if you haven't been stung, it isn't really that bad. Initial impact feels like getting a shock from a 110 outlet, and then your appendage feels like a waking limb, except it lasts all day. Minor nuisance for a healthy individual. I understand it can be pretty treacherous for a sensitive or weak person, so YMMV. |
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I'm tempting fate shamelessly here, but I've lived in Vegas for 41 years, grew up playing in the huge vacant lots we used to have in the north part of town, and yet I've never seen a scorpion except in a terrarium. look BEHIND you! 
live scorps glow under black light, so do some other things. (ever watch CSI?) you can buy UV flashlights online or in some local stores. |
| I stepped on 2 so far this summer. Both times it was with bare feet, in the kitchen, at 0200. Felt like I stepped on a peanut shell. Luckily, I wasn't stung but it was pretty tough falling back asleep afterwards. The pest control guy told me they were impossible to get rid of, only was to limit their numbers was kill the food source. |
| I have a friend that has scorpion issues at Whitney Ranch in Henderson and so do some of her neighbors. At times she has killed several a week. Sometimes she notices them because her cat or dog are staring at something of interest that turns out to be the scorpion. |
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Granted, I've only been here a year, but, I have yet to see anything big and buggy. Saw a black widow, but I brought that in my trailer from a mini storage in Henderson. I spray with a gallon jug of Spectracide from Walmart about once a month. I have had exactly three cockroaches in the house so far. Luckily, I have no palm trees and the nearest one is a block away. |
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I had some trouble with scorps a few years ago in my shop. Just a plain wood frame bldg. with a concrete floor, but surrounded by scrub and sage brush. (East of Carson City). I read the list of "What This Kills" on every jug of bug juice I could find, and the only one I saw that said scopions was BAYER TERMITE CONTROL, so I tried it, and it worked great. I started finding the little bastards out in the middle of the floor dead. I put it in a pump up garden sprayer and went around the base of the walls on the inside of the shop, and then the bottom of the siding and the foundation on the outside. The stuff lasts a long time, (like I found bugs laying around dead or dying for a couple of months after spraying), and I have'nt seen a scorp in there since my second application, which was probably 2 years ago. I use it once a year around the outside of my house just for fun. Give it a try! |
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I had some come into the house in the hills above Oildale (Google it; no, my wife is not my sister) and the neighbors showed me their rig for scorpions. Plant sprayer with cheap red wine and a couple dozen habanero peppers chopped up in it. Leave it in the sun for a few days. Don't spray anything white with it. Lasted about a month or so. It will also secure your door frames from a Basset Hound scratching, too, but that's another story. This may only work on stupid Blue State liberal scorpions, so YMMV. 
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Well here’s what I did to defeat the scourge of the scorpion. I know the list is a little long but it really helped me. I used to live in Palm Hills up on Black Mountain. Ask any bug guy and they will tell you that it is ground zero in the war on scorpions. If I didn’t cover something please feel free to ask.
1.Go outside and seal any cracks and or holes on your siding or stucco. Also check and seal if necessary the gaps in the stucco and eves where the roof and stucco meet. Scorpions can flatten themselves out, and fit through a crack the size of a credit card. This will keep them from gaining entry into your attic and walls. Also check the weather stripping around your doors to make sure that they are properly sealed. Doing this I also found it cut some money off the electric bill also. 2.Clean any debris from around the foundation of the house that they can hide in. Also if you have an older retaining wall or elevated planter made of wood. You may want to look at having it sealed or replaced. 3.In the garage make sure you have no gaps between the foundation and the bottom of the garage door. Also lay out some sticky traps along the walls. Scorpions have really bad eye sight and do the majority of navigating around by feel. They can pretty much see forms and the difference between light and dark. 4.In the house check all the outlet and switch covers to make sure the fit properly with no gaps. Also check your AC/heater vents to make sure that they too are fitted properly with no gaps lager then the size of a credit card. Once they get into the attic and walls they use the ducting and electrical wiring as kind of like highways around the house. Also make sure you don’t leave any piles of clothing or junk on the floor for long periods of time. Also place sticky traps under sink areas behind toilets. Pretty much any cool damp area in the house. Also check the fit of your attic cover to make sure that again it fits properly with no gaps. 5.Next call a good pest control company that a guarantees their work against scorpions. I found that Bulwark exterminating was the best. They work with the University of Arizona to find pesticides that work on scorpions. They are also pretty reasonable in price. And will come back out and retreat for free between monthly treatments. The main pesticides are pyrithin based contact sprays, Talstar and delta dust. The Talstar series of sprays are a water resistant micro encapsulated residual spray. That works on their central nervous system. It gets into the scorpion by eating contaminated bugs and through the breathing holes on the bottom of the scorpion. The granules they use are a water activated version of the spray. Delta dust is a powder pesticide much like baby powder that is negatively charged. So when the scorpion walks through it sticks to them and they breathe it in. It also works on their central nervous system. And also clogs their breathing vents. 6.Make sure they do a full initial indoor treatment. This includes spraying delta dust behind all outlets and light switches of the perimeter walls. Make sure that they also spray the delta dust into the attic and behind the AC vents. When they do the exterior treatment make sure they spray the perimeter of the house. Make sure the go 18 or more inches from the foundation, and 18 or more inches up the side of the walls. Also make sure the use a power sprayer. Not a back pack pump sprayer. The power sprayer will make sure that it penetrates and puts a good continuous layer around the house. Also make them spray any exterior or perimeter block walls or wood planter areas and at least 4 ft up any trees. Next in any landscaped areas (IE grass planters desert landscaped areas.)Make sure they lay down water activated granules around the bases of plants and rocky areas. |
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Oh also forgot to add. Backlight + Burnso-matic torch = Great fun! Also satifies the need for revenge on the little bastards. Feels good to KILL THEM WITH FIRE!! http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a55/Slmpickins28/kill_it_with_fire_demotivational_poster_1235695993_RE_Mysterious_Creatures_Found_on_Earth-s580x419-232628.jpg That is fun. Hard to hold the black light, the torch, and a beer all at once. I need one of those helmet things. |
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Oh also forgot to add. Backlight + Burnso-matic torch = Great fun! Also satifies the need for revenge on the little bastards. Feels good to KILL THEM WITH FIRE!! http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a55/Slmpickins28/kill_it_with_fire_demotivational_poster_1235695993_RE_Mysterious_Creatures_Found_on_Earth-s580x419-232628.jpg That is fun. Hard to hold the black light, the torch, and a beer all at once. I need one of those helmet things. No beer helmet. Then when you bend over and roast the little bastereds your beer will spill. You need one of these! Beer Belly Stealth Hydration System And in case you want the misses to join in the fun, The Wine Rack |
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I live in Summerlin and have had them for years in and out of the house. Killed one last week in the pantry and one this week walking on the carpet upstairs. I have had about a dozen in the house this year.
I try to keep everything tight and sealed aroung the house. I am always on the look out for those crawlers. Steve |
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We have 2 types here in southern Nevada, the Arizona Hairy and the Bark. Believe it or not, you want the Hairys, their sting is like a bee sting and they are slow to sting (they usually will only sting if cornered). Barks are much worse, they are incredible climbers, aggressive as hell (one actually charged me when I saw him on the floor), and the sting can be bad. I have had stings that just burn like hell for a day, and I even had one that sent me to the hospital (indescribable pain for hours). Barks=suck, Hairy=more creepy than dangerous.
Arizona Hairy is bigger (up to 6 inches), yellow in color with a brown or black back, and has a thick but short tail (about the length of the main body). He looks a lot like this..... 
Barks are smaller (usually 4 inches max and this is mostly tail) and are yellow but may have darker backs. The give away is the long tail, it is usually 2-3 times the length of the main body. This is a good example..... 
I keep 2 Barks, 2 Arizona Hairys, and 1 Deathstalker as pets, they really are cool animals, but I can see the concern when they aren't in an aquarium. Good luck. |
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I'm tempting fate shamelessly here, but I've lived in Vegas for 41 years, grew up playing in the huge vacant lots we used to have in the north part of town, and yet I've never seen a scorpion except in a terrarium. I saw my first one inside city limits in my life about 3 weeks ago in the area of Carey/Hollywood. He died at the hands of a friend with a roadflare. I've seen them before, but they were always in outlying areas, miles from the nearest structure. |
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Find one in the house every now and again. Actually it's usually the wife and the accompanying screaming that clues me in to their presence. The ones we find are a pale yellow with a black/grayish back, usually only a couple inches long. Saw a can of scorpion spray while wandering Lowe's this morning. Wonder how effective it really is. I stabbed the heck out of one's head with my pocket knife and it still kept scampering around trying to dig its stinger into the 154CM blade. Anymore I usually just toss 'em in the toilet and flush 'em alive. Figure they can catch a ride on a brown trout to the Las Vegas Wash and live free again.
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