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Scariest problem in oklahoma

dex — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 03:16:27 GMT

scorpions...my son just found one in his house.What do you do to get rid of this problem and if you have one does that mean there is more?

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Kachina624 — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 03:28:33 GMT

@dex wrote:
scorpions...my son just found one in his house.What do you do to get rid of this problem and if you have one does that mean there is more?

They're pretty much harmless but do sting like a bee sting. I saw one once when I lived in Houston in some potting soil. There was a small one on the carpet in our living room in West Texas. I've never ßeen one in the 17 years I've lived in NM which is desert. There's nothing you can do to assure you'll never see another but you probably won't. Seeing one doesn't mean there are more.

There are many things in OK more scary than scorpions, like earthquakes and tornados. Scorpions are minor stuff.

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dex — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 03:34:48 GMT

@Kachina624@Ok thanks.We are all really freaked out by bugs and those scorpions look evil.I thought maybe he had a colony like ants or something.So you don't think scorpions travel in pairs or groups and that is good to know.We hated the thought that they were raising a family in his home.

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AKgirl2 — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 03:43:56 GMT

There are,any different varieties of scorpions. While living in AZ., they sold a blacklight flashlight to detect scorpions.

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dex — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 03:51:04 GMT

Does the flashlight make them come out of hiding and where would you search a home for these hiding spots....like in your bed or under it?.....in your clothes?i

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Sooner — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 04:19:31 GMT

Call a pest control service and have them come out and spray around the house and that should get rid of them. For now. When they come back, do it again.

I HATE scorpions, and some people are highly allergic to them.

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sissel — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 04:20:32 GMT

I live in Az too yes they can be a problem some of them make a noise some don't I have been here for 12yrs never saw one but if you live near a wash or bike path then some have problems. I think if you see one there maybe others. Exterminators can fix it. They know where to look. Do not leave shoes outside on the patio, I know someone did that & their son put his foot in a shoe & got bit. I would get someone out to look around it is worth the money to get someone to spray the house & yard. Never thought OK would have this problem.

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Azcowgirl — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 04:55:02 GMT

I see them often , even though I have regular pest control, you really have to spray them directly to kill them since they are like little armored tanks. I have to spray them and then put a paper cup over it or it will skitter away and try to hide somwhere . They carry their tiny babies on their backs so smashing one with a shoe doesn't always work because the babies scatter and they are really small and hard to see. I am really freaked out by them. They can squeeze through an opening the thickness of a credit card so it can be quite a project to seal everything . They are looking for water and a food source ( bugs) so if you keep the bug population away, they will go elsewhere. My DS and his family live in Phoenix, and their neighborhood really has a problem with them. They see them in the house regularity and have had several close calls . None of us ever leave any shoes or clothing or towels etc, on the floor nor do we go barefoot. I've come close to stepping on one barefoot so now I always wear shoes.

ive hear that being stung by one, can be compared to being stabbed by a red hot poker that's been held in the fire.

I have all my furniture legs sitting in little glass bowls to prevent them from climbing on , as most stings occur lwhile laying or sitting on a sofa/ chair , I've heard

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pugvette74 — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 06:13:34 GMT

My daughter had one sitting on the top of her computer in her house. She lived in Sedona AZ. They had to have an exterminator come every month. When I went to visit, we were sitting on a step in front of the house, I looked to my left and there was one a foot away from me. It was Fall, month of October and she had a big pumpkin on the step. I picked up the pumpkin and dropped it on the scorpion. He was history, the pumpkin was okay... Didn't know Oklahoma had them.

I would get an exterminator just to be on the safe side.

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deeva — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 15:52:14 GMT

We have scorpions, when our home was first built there were a lot more.Our exterminator comes every three months. I always check my shoes and don't walk around barefoot. I didn't know that Oklahoma had scorpions. They're common in desert areas.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:24:43 GMT

Smart idea to check your shoes! More often than once I've heard about them going into peoples' shoes.

We have them here but I haven't had to deal with one in decades. One time, in 1979, when I last lived in an apartment, we had a place where you walk in and you are on the top floor (living rm, din rm, kitchen, etc) and then right inside the door there were stairs going down to the bdrms and another bath.

Anyway, a large scorpion had gotten in the apartment and down the stairs into our bathroom. I came home from work after my husband, who was down there and he yelled at me DON'T COME DOWN HERE. I thought that was weird because he never yelled.

But he had found one in the bathtub down there and didn't want me to be freaked out so he was dealing with it. Let me tell ya, the big ones are not super easy to kill. He had a time with that one! I never had to see anything.

Re: Scariest problem in oklahoma

ROMARY — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 01:39:56 GMT

Just wondering if plugging in those ultra-sonic pest and mice repellents might work? They do keep spiders away.

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dex — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:37:39 GMT

@ROMARY that is a great idea and I will look into it.I hate the use of pesticides on a regular basis.

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ValuSkr — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:43:52 GMT

Sounds like scorpions can be very small. I've always imagined they were bigger, like 8" - 9".