Asian blue forest scorpion
Javanimetrus cyaneus
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsScorpions, ticks and friendsRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Asian blue forest scorpion is a big, dark black scorpion. When light shines on it, its body glints blue. Its skin is covered in tiny bumps, like rough sandpaper.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect. It is an arachnid with eight legs, a cousin of the spiders.
Lives in
Borneo, the Philippines and Indonesia, in rainforests and swampy forests
Length
12 to 15 cm (4.7 to 5.9 in)
What does it eat?
Like all scorpions, it is a hunter. It grabs small animals such as insects with its big claws.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🧱as long as 5 toy building bricks in a row✋about as long as your hand🍽️could run across a dinner table in 1.1 seconds
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How fast is it?
Asian blue forest scorpion about 3.2 km/h (2 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It can grow 12 to 15 centimetres long, about as long as a grown-up's hand.
2
In the daytime it hides under stones and fallen tree trunks.
3
Its body is not smooth but full of little grains and bumps.
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Most asked questions about Asian blue forest scorpion
?Where does the Asian blue forest scorpion live?
In the rainforests and swampy forests of Borneo, the Philippines and Indonesia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Javanimetrus cyaneus
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Scorpionidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Scorpionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Javanimetrus cyaneus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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