scorpion question

   / scorpion question #11  
They are all over around my house but here's how I've been keeping them out of my house.

Spray entire perimeter (foundation) of home with Bug-B-Gone. Spray around all entry points to the home. Those include, but are not limited to gable vents, soffit vents, dryer vents, entry points for the central air unit, and around all doors and windows. Also spray the bottom two feet of every tree that is close to overhanging the roof, and the base of every tree that contacts that one . . . you get the idea. This usually takes about 15 minutes, including mixing of the chemical, and costs less than fifty cents. It's best to do it every 3-4 months, but I have stretched it to six.

That method was getting everything but the scorpions, and had reduced the scorpions to one or two every year. One stung me in bed, what a lousy way to wake up. Previously, before spraying, the award went to the time the scorpion fell out of the exhaust fan in the bathroom . . . while I was sitting on the throne. Fell in my hair. Not a pretty sight. I screamed like a little girl. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Anyway . . . Found the point of entry by process of deduction. They were coming in the air conditioner drain line (pvc) and popping out the top of the vent hole. I put a screen over the top of it and we've gone a year now with no scorpions or other nasty surprises in the house. Keeping my fingers crossed.

The spray method I described keeps out all other lesser bugs, and can probably be successfully applied just about anywhere.
 
   / scorpion question #12  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( One stung me in bed, what a lousy way to wake up )</font>

I think I was six or seven years old when one got in bed with me; got me 3 times before I bailed out screaming, and even after Dad killed it, I slept the rest of the night in another bed, and didn't sleep too well either. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif But I never forgot it and hate those things. When we bought a new house in '72, one evening the first week we were in it, we found 2 scorpions in the house, and I had professional exterminators out there the next day. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

And since then, I've been doing the same thing you're doing, two or three times a year, but this is the first year to use Bug-B-Gone. I've been using Diazinon most of the time, occasionally Malathion instead.

As for having one fall out of the exhaust fan, I can imagine what an exciting time that was. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
   / scorpion question #13  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That's particularly common with new construction - Take steps to control 'em - keep a watchful eye for awhile - especially in the bathrooms - but you shouldn't have a problem next season - and like was said - dump your shoes before putting your feet in 'em. )</font>

Living here in the great wet north, I know nothing about scorpions. Why do you have to be extra careful in the bathroom? Bare feet? Why does new construction pose a problem? Because of openings?

Steve
 
   / scorpion question #14  
Yes Bird, it was very invigorating to say the least.

The worst visitor we ever had in our house was one of those giant red-headed centipedes. It was about 8" long and my daughter saw it trying to climb a wall. Come to think of it, she sounded a lot like I did that day in the bathroom. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Anyway, being the tender soul that I am, the fact that he hadn't hurt anyone, and because I'd never seen one before, I trapped him in a cardboard box, videotaped him, and set him loose in the woods.

We figured he came through the door to the garage, which had been open for a while that day. Since then, I spray around the garage door AND around the entry door, and it never stays open longer than a few seconds.

We see lots of juveniles about but only rarely do we see the adults.

Oh, and don't get me started about the tarantulas. My place is an entomoligist's dream come true.
 
   / scorpion question #15  
.....I have heard similar techniques from other people that match what you guys are saying......basically, if you kill their food (cockroaches, etc.) they are not as plentiful.....while I lived in AZ, I heard that many of the exterminators who advertise "scorpion control" use the technique of physical removal, coupled with closing up any and all home entry
points ;-)
 
   / scorpion question #16  
We lived in Tuscon, AZ for 1 year when my Dad was in charge of building a golf course. I'll never forget the day we went to see the house we we're going to be renting for the year. The realtor was giving the family a tour, and she very calmly mentioned that we should shake our shoes out each morning before we put them on. My mother asked why we should do that, and the realtor said to make sure there weren't any scorpions in them! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I still believe to this day that my mother NEVER took off her shoes for the rest of the year until we moved back to the midwest! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / scorpion question #17  
Ah, yes. Shake out your shoes in the morning.

I was raised in central Texas & know about these critters. I've been got more than once. However, I've been in the New Orleans area all my married life. A few years ago we were vacationing in Big Bend, having driven for some time to get there. My girls [both New Orleans kids] were cranky & at each others throats. Well, we had rented a cabin in the park - - & since it was a cabin, both girls got their own bedroom [& so did my wife & me!]. As we headed for bed, I told everyone to shake out their shoes in the morning. They wanted to know why, so I explained it to them. They just nodded. So what did we find the next morning, but both girls in the same bed. They were looking to each other for protection, I guess.
The other thing that shut them up that first night in Big Bend [did I mention they were fussy after a long day on the road?] - - I put down the tailgate of the jeep, told them to lay down & look up. I could almost hear them catch their collective breath as they saw that sky chock full of stars. Best baby sitter I ever had.
 
   / scorpion question #18  
Far West Texas,

dryer than dry, hotter than hot,and the most beautiful desert I've ever seen. Just wish the Rio Grande would flow again
 

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