Scorpions

Scorpions

Scorpions are arachnids and have eight legs like their cousins – spiders, mites and ticks.  These cool critters can be found on every continent around the world, except Antarctica, but they’re most common in deserts and areas of hot, dry lands.

These awesome arachnids typically eat insects (although some eat spiders, lizards and small rodents, too), and each species has a special type of venom that works well against the chosen prey.

Scorpions usually become an indoor problem when they choose to leave their outdoor habitats in search of a better place to live where more food sources are found. If a scorpion’s better choice includes your home’s interior, take action to implement exclusion techniques that include sealing their common entry points with sealant or mortar.

Scorpions commonly use gaps under doors; ground-level windows; gaps surrounding plumbing pipes and utility lines that enter the home; and cracks and gaps in the foundation to get inside a home or business.

Scorpions also gain access by hitchhiking inside in boxes, firewood, potted plants and outdoor furniture.

Once inside, scorpions typically seek out basements, crawl spaces, hidden places under kitchen cabinets or in garages and bathrooms.