My husband just got bit by one of these, it's deffinately no joke. It's been 5 days now he's on a antibiotic and something for pain. the bite (or should I say bites..he seems to have been bitten multiple times in the same spot), now is the size of a softball about a 3/4 inch high and a deep red purple, the bite has gotten infected and we are doing what the Doc told him, soaking in hot tub n such but it doesn't want to heal. The bite has excreted large amounts of puss and bad tissue. beyond useing a hot compress keeping the wound clean, I don't know what more we can do. Does anyone have advice on what more we could do to help it heal?


(and we are about to bomb my house in case anymore are roaming about)

i just found one of these in my daughters clothes hamper

We are not anywhere near the desert and found one in the living room wall a few years back... had no idea what it was until we went to a pet shop and a guy working there showed us some images another lady had brought in of the same little guy asking, as we did, "What on earth is this thing?" The fact that this guy looks as if he has 10 legs is what threw us off. He, however did not seem to be agressive or fast. He was almost 2 inches in length and stayed patiently in one place as we stared at him for about half an hour trying to figure out what he was. And yes, my mom killed him, with a broom, and she is not apologizing...

I was on a posting in Namibia, southern Africa and there was one in my living room. I was able to catch it with a transparent bowl. I didn't know if it was poisonous or not so I made a little pool of RAID next to the bowl and moved it to kill it (sorry for those who like them, understand the context here) and it went completely nuts, super aggresive and even cut its own front legs with its jaw. Very scary. When the mouth is open it looks like that thing in the movie Predator. I didn't know their jaw was so powerful though... Some other time I found a baby in the bathtub but it was already dead then.

I had a huge female as a pet when I lived in Southern California. Caught her in her burrow when I lifted a large piece of metal plate up to look under...there she was looking horrifyingly ferocious. These creatures have no poison, but they do have the dubvious distinction of having the most powerful jaws (in relation to their size) of any animal on earth. A large one can easily bite your finger right down to the bone! Mine was no speed demon though, she moved slowly and she would eat anything I put into her enclosure, including both large and small scorpions. I have seen them dining on lizards and even large centipedes(!!) These are cool creatures!
Fred

I found one of these in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. He was sure defensive when I caught him. I had never seen one before in our area.

i found one in our pool in lake havasu and one later in the night there fast little guys but are they posionous? ive never seen one before pretty odd

Found one in my garage tonight. It's very small, but have scorpions been introduced to the alpine lake enviornment that is Lake Tahoe, California?

I've probably seen around 50 of these little critters in the Phoenix Az area over the past 15 yrs or so. I will confirm the 3-5" eventual size as reported previously and will also confirm the aggressive behavior. We came across one in a munitions storage building at Luke AFB some years ago. When the ammo troop couldn't ID the thing after studying it for a couple minutes, he decided to approach it more intently to get to an an ammo can I needed. Well, it seemed intent on guarding it (or not moving at the very least), it backed up a little like it was setting a stance, raised up it's front half and those weird dark colored arms/feelers even higher as the ammo troops boot came down on it. Defiant to the end.....I will never forget that confrontation....as to their venom/hazards, I cannot speak, I have heard they're harmless to humans but that's only the rumors I've heard. I spend a lot of time on the floor of my garage working and when you spot one those little suckers scurrying around on the floor with you, only one of two things can happen, stop working or go after the bug. Unless of course they don't both you......

Hey, I'm in California and I have found 3 so far at my house. They are really creepy looking lol.

Moved from Wind Scorpions.

I FOUND ONE AT MY FRONT STOOP WHEN I CAME HOME LATE ONE NIGHT, HE TURNED ON ME AND CHARGED ME. I CAPTURED HIM AND SHOWED HIM AT WORK.
HE SURE IS FEISTY, I LET HIM GO IN A DESERT AREA NEAR MY HOME.

This is what we call a camel spider not venomus but it will give a nasty bite if it gets a chance they get bigger to about 5 inch

We live adjacent to the desert and found a good-sized Wind Scorpion under a street light. It was pretty exhilirating trying to catch one and fit him into a Gatorade bottle.....HUGE Pinchers on this guy, watch out!

I found a few of these in my basement, and I live in North Dakota!!!!!!!!

That's a solifugid, AKA windscorpion.
Info from Texas Cooperative Extension