Found Florida Scorpion inside my home

The scorpions in Florida are rather innocuous, not much worse that a bee sting. I too had scorpions in a newly built house in a pine woods. It lasted a year or two and then I never saw one in the house again. We lived there for 20 years.

From what I know, scorpions in the Gulf states have painful stings that do very little more than give a hard lesson to pets. I think that if your pets are stung, they will only be painful and have some swelling. I could be wrong, but this is what I remember from vet tech school.

Scorpions are not insects, and your pest service may not be targeting them. New construction disturbs the habitat, and often scorpions are looking for new homes and go inside. You definitely cannot blame them, since they are homeless. You should have your pest service or even yourself go and try and seal up cracks and crevices to keep them out. Using a black light can help you find the critters if they are hiding in any tight spots. They can squeeze through really tight spots too!

You can even provide them new homes. Rock piles or piles of branches and litter can be good homes for them. They also like palm trees that have loose bark that they can hide under. Scorpions are very good pest control! Giving them a new home away from yours, like on the outskirts of your property, may very much help.

I'm sure someone here can help you even more with the identification of possible species and risks. Invading wildlife in new construction areas are a very common problem, and the best way to deal with it is to give them new homes so they don't need yours. I highly doubt a scorpion sees a tidy, bright, noisy home as an ideal place to live!