Stripe-tailed scorpion
The stripe-tailed scorpion is a sandy-brown desert scorpion with dark stripes along its thick tail. It hides under rocks during the day and looks for damp spots. Its babies ride around on their mum's back.
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Fun facts
It sometimes hides in shoes or sleeping bags left on the ground.
When a boy and a girl scorpion meet, they do a dance together that can last minutes or even hours.
The babies are born alive, not from eggs. The mum can have anywhere from 1 to 100 at once.
Bats, snakes, lizards, birds and even other scorpions hunt it.
Most asked questions about Stripe-tailed scorpion
?How big is a stripe-tailed scorpion?
Big ones are about 6 to 7 centimetres long.
?What does a stripe-tailed scorpion eat?
Small creatures like crickets, cockroaches and other scorpions.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Paravaejovis spinigerus
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Vaejovidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Vaejovidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Devil scorpion
Where the facts come from
- Paravaejovis spinigerus (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 Andrew Meeds. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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