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Striped Bark Scorpion - Centruroides vittatus

Striped Bark Scorpion - Centruroides vittatus
World Birding Center HQ at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
Photo taken in June 2006. The park has an intensely bright light in its maintenance yard that routinely attracts an impressive array of insects every night, and sometimes their predators as well. In the early summer, I would regularly find scorpions of this species under that light. In the late summer, fall, and winter, I found numerous toads and mantids, but no scorpions since mid-summer.