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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Scorpions (Scorpiones) » Vaejovidae » Forest Scorpions (Uroctonus) » California Forest Scorpion (Uroctonus mordax)
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Scorpion with young on back - Uroctonus mordax - female
Copyright © 2007 Richard Wasson

Scorpion with young on back - Uroctonus mordax - Female
Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, USA
August 29, 2007
Size: 80mm +/-
Found this guy under a rock at Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen.

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Contributed by Richard Wasson on 29 August, 2007 - 4:17pm
Last updated 29 August, 2007 - 11:25pm

Life
Oh my this is so beautiful. I woke up one day from a nap to see a similar site, but with darker babies only inches from my head where the mattress was an inch away from the wall. They were on my box spring. I carefully put them outside. There is something about the way their young cling to them that makes them so awe inspiring.
… Jes, 29 August, 2007 - 6:47pm login or register to post comments

Neat.
I believe she is a specimen of Uroctonus mordax.
… Eric R. Eaton, 29 August, 2007 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Scorpin
Thanks Eric, I had no idea what species she was.
Richard
… Richard Wasson, 29 August, 2007 - 5:38pm login or register to post comments

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