Southern devil scorpion
The southern devil scorpion is a small, dark scorpion with reddish brown legs and claws. It hides under logs, stones and loose bark in the woods. Like all scorpions, it glows in the dark under a special purple blacklight.
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Fun facts
It can squeeze through very thin cracks, so sometimes it walks into houses.
Scorpion mothers do not lay eggs. The babies are born alive, up to 26 at a time.
It is small: with claws and tail stretched out, it is less than 5 centimetres long.
Where the woods suit it, lots of them can live close together.
Most asked questions about Southern devil scorpion
?Why do scorpions glow?
Their hard outer skin glows under blacklight, which helps people find them at night.
?What does the southern devil scorpion eat?
Small insects like termites and crickets.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Vaejovis carolinianus
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Vaejovidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Vaejovidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Southern unstriped scorpion
Where the facts come from
- Vaejovis carolinianus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Sesamehoneytart. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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