Striped bark scorpion
The striped bark scorpion is a pale yellow scorpion with two dark stripes on its back. It is probably the scorpion people meet most often in the United States. In the day it hides under rocks, in plants and in old sheds, and at night it comes out to hunt.
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Fun facts
Unlike most scorpions, it likes living near other scorpions.
The mother does not lay eggs. She gives birth to live babies after about eight months.
The babies ride on their mother's back until they change their skin for the first time.
Before mating, males wave their tails at each other in a showdown until one backs down.
People look for it at night with ultraviolet lamps, because scorpions glow in that light.
Most asked questions about Striped bark scorpion
?How big is a striped bark scorpion?
It is rarely longer than about 7 centimetres.
?Where does the striped bark scorpion hide?
Under rocks, in plants and in old sheds, barns and sometimes houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Centruroides vittatus
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Buthidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Buthidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Texas bark scorpion
Where the facts come from
- Striped bark scorpion (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 Charles & Clint. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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