#pet scorpion

[vanacoar]

Guys I got a new scorpion the other day and she’s so fucking cute! I love her. She still has no name though

[uwudonoodle]

[bugs-boas-and-bodymods]

I GOT MY FIRST SCORPION AND I LOVE HIM!!!

[goblincreatureofthedeep]

shaky as hell hand as always, lol

First feeding :3 i fed them yesterday a few mealworms after having isolated the worms to load them with easy to get food. I fed them each two worms abt the same size as this worm

#petscorpion #petinvert

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[magm4kyy]

Meet my new Son/Daughter!!!✨✨💞💖

[lifehappend]

(via walking my pet scorpion Sticker by ELithen)

It may be me who has really bad humor, but I think this design is hilarious.

almost, so I have to get a pet scorpion of my own. 🦞

[bestanimal]

Round 2 - Arthropoda - Arachnida

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Arachnida is a highly diverse class, ranging from the Demodex mites living on you (yes, you) right now, to the Triassic-surviving horseshoe crabs (yes, a 2019 genetics-based analysis places them within Arachnida, though this is still debated), to your friendly pest-controlling house spider. They live worldwide, mainly on land, but some also in freshwater and marine environments. There are over 110,000 named species, with more being discovered every year. They comprise the Ricinulei (“Hooded Tickspiders”), Xiphosura (“Horseshoe Crabs”), Opiliones (“Harvestmen”), Solifugae (“Camel Spiders”), Acariformes (“Acariform Mites”), Parasitiformes (“Parasitiform Mites and Ticks”), Palpigradi (“Microwhip Scorpions”), Pseudoscorpiones (“Book Scorpions”), Scorpiones (“Scorpions”), Amblypygi (“Tailless Whip Scorpions”), Schizomida (“Short-tailed Whip Scorpions”), Uropygi (“Vinegaroons”), and Araneae (“Spiders”).

Adult arachnids have 8 legs attached to a head/thorax segment called the cephalothorax. Their abdomen contains their heart and respiratory organs. Arachnids also have two other pairs of appendages that vary in function between orders. The chelicerae are mainly used in feeding and defense. In spiders, they are used to deliver venom. The second pair, called pedipalps, are used for feeding, locomotion, defense, and/or reproduction. Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions, Ricinuleids, and Horseshoe Crabs have pedipalps that end in a pair of pinchers used for defense and manipulating food. Pseudoscorpions also have a venom gland in their pinchers which they use to immobilize prey. Vinegaroons, Schizomids, Amblypygids, and most Harvestmen have raptorial pedipalps that are used for capturing prey. Solifugids use their palps as another set of legs, and spiders use theirs like hands, while the males also use theirs for mating. Mites and ticks use their palps to sense their surroundings. Mites are more diverse than other arachnids, some only having 6 or even 4 legs. Adult females of Podapolipidae only have a single pair of legs. Some arachnids have a tail-like structure called a telson. Horseshoe Crabs use their telson to flip themselves over if they are turned on their backs. Scorpions use their telson as a stinger to deliver venom, while Palpigrades, Schizomids, and Vinegaroons use theirs as sensory structures. Schizomids and Vinegaroons can also produce acetic acid at the base of their telsons, which they use as a chemical defense sprayed at attackers. Instead of a telson, spiders have spinnerets on their abdomen which they use to create silk. Some have no eyes; some have up to six. Some only have very simple eyes which detect light and shadow, while others have very advanced eyesight.

Arachnids are so diverse that it would be impossible for me to provide a general summary of their behavior here. Some lay eggs, some bear live young. Some have intensive courtship rituals. In most, mothers provide parental care, but in some this falls on the fathers. They can be predators, scavengers, carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, parasites, and everything in between.

Arachnids are one of the oldest living Classes of land animals. Xiphosurans first appeared in the Late Ordovician, with modern horseshoe crabs appearing in the Carboniferous and becoming more common in the Triassic. The spider-like Order Uraraneida first appeared in the Permian, with true spiders appearing in the Carboniferous. There’s a lot of talk about how horseshoe crabs predate the dinosaurs, and that’s true, but so do other arachnids… and most other arthropods as well!

Propaganda under the cut:

While only Spiders, Scorpions, and Pseudoscorpions have venom, they all have different methods of injecting it, meaning they likely independently evolved venom. Which is wild to me.

Spiders tend to get a bad rap (mostly due to western media banking on arachnophobia and spreading misinformation) but they are incredibly beneficial to humans, eating many of the species we consider pests. Some crops, such as cranberries, tomatoes, and potatoes, rely on spiders for pest control. It has been found that wherever farmers release spiders, their crop yields increase, while also cutting down on the use of chemical pesticides by 80%.

There are around 50,000 species of spider and all but one family (Uloboridae) is venomous. However, this venom is mainly used to capture prey, and only 10 genera have venom considered medically significant to humans. Bites are rarer than the media would have you think, and deaths are even more rare, as they are usually a result of secondary infections, allergic reaction, or pre-existing conditions. You are more likely to die from a mosquito bite.

Even if they weren’t super important and helpful to humans, spiders are still just small animals living their lives and are all too often unfairly demonized. I’ll get off my soapbox now but listen… I’m Love Them. They are just little guys.

Anyway, Ricinuleids have a hood, called a cucullus, which can be raised or lowered over their head. This hood is also where females will carry their eggs until they hatch. Baby hoodie.

Horseshoe Crab blood is blue due to a copper-based respiratory pigment called hemocyanin. It is often harvested for its unique reactions to bacterial contamination and is thus used in FDA testing. Horseshoe Crab blood has saved millions of human lives, however, overharvesting for their blood as well as for fishing bait has put their populations into decline, which has in turn affected populations of shorebirds which depend on their eggs as migratory fuel. Many areas have enacted regulations on harvesting and established captive breeding programs.

Harvestmen are sometimes referred to as spiders, but they are actually closer related to scorpions!

Harvestmen are unique among arachnids for their high diversity of feeding behavior. Many species are omnivorous, eating small insects, fungi, and plants. Some species are scavengers. Some species feed on fecal matter! Unlike most other arachnids, they do not have sucking mouthparts, and instead chew their food with tiny pinching jaws.

Many arachnids, especially most scorpions, are biofluorescent, glowing under UV light. There are many hypotheses for why this is, but it may allow them to detect the presence of UV light themselves, letting them know when there is a full moon vs a new moon.

Scorpions can also detect light through sensors in their tail!

Scorpion claws and tails are reinforced with iron and nickel

Mites are incredibly diverse and live everywhere. Many live in the soil and aid in decomposing, some live in water, some live on plants, some live in plants and create galls, some eat fungi, some eat lichen, some eat carrion, some are predators, some are parasites. Almost every species on land (mammals, reptiles, ants, plants, etc) has at least one mite species associated with it.

Vinegaroon courtship rituals involve a dance that can last up to 12 hours of the female testing the male’s endurance. Female vinegaroons invest a lot into their children, often starving themselves in the process, so they must be absolutely certain the male has good fitness.

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @amiliahthebengal

"My late emperor scorpion (pandinus imperator) Obsidian"

[organicmatter]

lobster

[overdoso]

Momento de autocuidado limpando as patinhas, ou garrinhas.

[ghostlycorvid]

State of the pet bugs (most of them anyway)

Maple making shiny eyes for more crickets bc I have only given her a couple small ones this week.

My two sensitive babies. Jumpers with light colored heads look like they're gonna cry with those little shiny eyes. The nameless A. purpurea escaped last night and went on a very tense two minute adventure before I managed to get to it enough to get a capture cup near for it to walk into.

My C. versicolor has been REALLY webbing up its enclosure this week and is spending a lot more time out of the hide. I feel a little bad that after its next molt, I'll be relocating it to an adult sized enclosure.

My cryptids, the moss mantis and new giant shield mantis.

My eternally furious babies, my desert scorpion and Autumn, my pumpkin patch tarantula. Her cheap ass Amazon enclosure is stuck partly open and I'm so glad it closed enough to keep her in but this replacement tank needs to get here FASTER....

[justaneurodivergent]

Just a little guy.

[sagasolejma]

HEY EVERYONE LISTEN UP

One of my good friends @shequotesherself wrote this really amazing poem about my tailless whip scorpion Solejma and the unrequited love I feel for her, it literally brought me to tears, and I really need y'all to read it:

"You are my sunshine who prefers the moon

Your home's a shrine, though you know not to whom

Your food's a gift that need not be repaid,

Though you wouldn't think to anyway

Each day my thoughts of you are writ in bold

Across my arms, my blood, my heart and soul

You see these words each time my hand comes close

And yet unversed, you cannot read my prose

You are my sunshine who prefers the moon

The major lift of my favorite tune

Mon raison d'être et ma chère chèrie

It's such a shame, I think, you cannot see

With your eight eyes or feel with your eight legs

How hard my heart which beats for you does beg

Not for a service or a word of thanks

But just for you to know how much I

Love and care and dream at night

For you, for you to be alright"

Words cannot describe how much I love this poem. It puts so many of my feelings around my little critter into words, in ways that I never could or would be able to. She's amazing❤️

@shequotesherself also has a Wattpad collection of her other poems that are also really, really, really good, and she's currently working on writing a book of poems so she would greatly appreciate all the amount of feedback she can get!

Here's the link to her wattpad

I genuinely implore you to go and read some of her other works like "Your Love Is Like Acid" or "To Whom It May Concern".

If you could reblog this to spread the word or even better, reblog some of her posts, I would be extremely grateful to you!

I promise you won't be disappointed!

[skunkes]

who is / whats the story with mateo? he looks wicked cool

not much, he was meant to be a sort of antag to one of my main 4 ocs I had in high school, but those ocs also didn't have much of a plot. he was the demon counterpart to my angel oc

he was sort of a proto talon in that i really wanted to make Guy Who Sucks oc after already failing once (with al) and then i failed again because, well, its very easy to want to make a guy who sucks not suck anymore.

demon, meant to interfere with angel's angelness. has worm tongue/worm inside his body. can stretch his neck out (body horror warning i suppose) for more worm antics. uses the worm to drain you of your essence via stomach. can speak thru the worm. maybe he IS the worm. scorpion tail. enjoys humans ! has a "human" form, eventually chooses to just hide out on earth forever as a very strange human

[lumikinetic]

Man it makes me so bummed out that shows like Scorpion and Leverage just do not exist anymore, and not like the way I usually say "they don't make em like this anymore!" I mean literally if you went to an exec today and told them you had a show idea about:

A mainstay cast of 5-7 people with their own clear, distinct personalities and motivations

In a family dynamic that go through a new plot every episode

Over the course of 15-30 episodes per season with a 3-5 season run

Oh and each of those episodes are a tight 25 minutes, once you drop the commercials

We do a 40 minute episode ONLY for the season finale

They would look at you like you grew a second head. What do you MEAN shows don't work the way movies do and they need time and investment to gain traction! The Bear is like the closest thing to this but it's still so far away cause it's very much still a Streaming Era Show and the tone is just so radically different. The average media executive mind cannot comprehend a [Blank] Of The Week format anymore.

[drawfee-quot3s]

oh me i suffer from lawwng ginus

it's terminal

it's terminal

i'll die with a ginus so long

oh mildred? she died from long ginus. it was really traumatic-

she tripped on it. fell down the stairs.

- julia + jacob