Edward's bark scorpion

Centruroides edwardsii

Edward's bark scorpion is a big reddish brown scorpion with yellow legs. It often lives close to people, even inside houses.

Fun fact: this one is not an insect. It is an arachnid with eight legs, a cousin of the spiders.

Lives in

From Mexico through Central America to Colombia, often in and around houses

Length

6 to 10 cm (2.4 to 4.1 in)

Top speed

about 2.6 km/h (1.6 mph)

On foot, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Dangerous: look, do not touch

What does it eat?

It mostly eats insects. Now and then it even catches small lizards or a little snake.

How big is it?

as long as 3 toy building bricks in a rowabout as long as your handcould run across a dinner table in 1.4 seconds

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A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)

Edward's bark scorpion about 2.6 km/h (1.6 mph)

A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

cool stuff

The males are bigger than the females.

It lives in dry forests, deserts and rainforests, from the beach up to about 1,700 metres high.

It has also moved to Cuba and to Senegal in Africa.

you asked

?How big is Edward's bark scorpion?

Grown-ups are about 6 to 10 centimetres long, about as long as a grown-up's finger.

?Where does Edward's bark scorpion live?

From Mexico through Central America to Colombia, often in towns and houses.

Centruroides edwardsii (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 Cabanillas Lopez Jesus Miguel. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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