DS and I laid down in my bed last night to snuggle and ewwww, there was a scorpion on my ceiling. DH came in and sucked him into the vaccuum. Freaked me out! Needless to say, I barely slept!

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, OMG!!! I would not be able to EVER sleep in that house either.I would move. I woke up a few weeks ago in the morning ,opened my eyes just to catch a big ugly thick black legged spider crawling from bf's pillow towards my face. I got me one of those electricuting swatters for a few bucks at Harbor Freight a few days before that.So,glad I did.They are a lot easier to use then trying to catch and smush something with toilet paper.

When my son was about 4 he came into the living room and said that there was a lobster in the hallway on the wall. I was confused for about 10 seconds and then I thought, "Crap! Scorpion!" What sucks is usually if you see one, there are more somewhere. We live in Oklahoma so they are not so uncommon.
Another time my husband and I were sitting on the couch watching tv and he looks down and tells me not to move, (yeah i wanted to jump up and down and freak out when I saw what he saw) there was a baby scorpion crawling on my leg! eeeek!
Also heard you can find scorpions in your house using a blacklight.

My MIL has an exterminator come once a month just because if she didn't the scorpions would over run her house. She lives close to Atlanta. I never saw them when I used to go down there.

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We used to have a scorpion problem where we lived. I got stung on my stomach when I was pregnant and also many other times. It hurt less each time!

It sort of feels like a bee sting but then the area goes numb for a few days. It's not that bad for an adult. Young children, elderly, or those allergic to bee stings might want to be concerned.

One time, and this is the honest truth, I got stung on the forehead... Let me tell you, it was like BOTOX! No forehead lines for a few days!

The black light works great. They glow green. My DH used to go 'scorpion hunting' in the back yard. They love rocks and gravel -- squish! We felt like the exterminator only brought out MORE and we had fewer once we quit having them come. They have to actually walk through the wet poison (soft part of their body is their tummy) in order to get the poison -- exterminator explained it to us once. LOL.


We now live approximately 1,000 feet higher in elevation and get really good freezes in the winter. No scorpions here -- knock on wood.

They do exterminate around the building. DH sprays the garage, balcony, and outside the door. The maintenance guy had the door open the other day draining the water heater so I'm guessing that's when he snuck in.
GROSS

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yikes. 2 stories on critters.

In line at CVS, the young lady behind me taps me and says, theres a mouse on your foot.

Yup. There was. I remained calm. I wiggled my foot, he hopped off, and sat next to me for a bit. The cashier just FREAKED, yelled, and told the guy manager to get a basket to catch him (yeah, that;'ll work...) I told the girl behind me 'Thanks. He likes me because i have a package of cheese in my pocket...) ' (I did NOT)

2nd -- Laying on the floor, of our first apartment, watching TV... I feel something on my foot. Im on my back, so I look up to my foot, and theres the little mouse on my foot. I jumped, moved quickly, and he ran away.'

Jason

We get mice now and then too. Unfortunately, my cat believes in catch and release. She'll carry one into the room to "show" us, drops it, and then gives it a firm pat to get it moving again!

EEK!!!

I can take a mouse or a snake but scorpions that scares me. I went to tenn. one summer with my brother and sister and they told me to watch out for the scorpions and I freeked out. I never stopped looking for them. Never saw one but how can you live like that knowing that they are there?

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ok...sounds icky...think it is totally funny that your DH sucked it up in the vacuum!!

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Well let me tell you my story.

It all happened last summer on a beautiful Saturday morning. DD was spending the night at a friend's house and DH was on the computer and DS was watching cartoons quietly and of course I was scrubbing the floor testing out a new toy. All was peaceful until we here my DS say " Uh guys, I see something???" I raise my head like huh? Then I hear my DH make a noise that sounded like BWWAAAAA like he was really freaked out by then I am up on my feet Hubby says for son to calmly walk to the kitchen where we are and I hear hubby say ITS A BAT!! I was so freakin' scared, we couldn't get this thing out of our house, in fact we never found it, I had the kids sleeping in our room for the longest time, we finally just assumed it got out somehow.

Well just a few months ago I sent DD downstairs to the basement to switch over a load of clothes for me when all of the sudden we hear this blood curdling scream, ITS A BAT ITS A BAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

That son of a gun had been in my basement the whole time. Do you know how many times I go down there a day? a week? I go down there and sit on the steps for peace and quiet sometimes!! When my mother was staying with us for awhile due to an injury DH and I had both snuck down there for "peace and quiet together' since we were letting my mom have our room That stupid bat was probably down there staring at us the whole time

Hubby got the bat out this last time. I really hope to never find one again. BLAH

Many, many years ago I was in the check out line in a grocery store.
The customer ahead of me had a bunch of bananas on the counter and all of a sudden a tarantula crawled out of them!!!

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Ok, the scorpion grossed me out but since they are not in the house daily I am able to handle it. Still walking around checking every inch of the house though of course :-) DS is only 4 1/2 - not sure what a scorpion would do to him.
I do think I would DIE if a mouse crawled on me though.

When I was younger I spent my summers in WV, and my aunt had bats in the house. They came in through the bathroom from the attic. She also had roaches crawling everywhere. The person I am now would not even step foot in the house but I used to sleep there as a kid. ICK.

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I had no idea there were scorpions in the Atlanta area (haven't lived here long). Just what I need...one more critter to freak out about

Don't know where you're from but we have tornadoes too.
I didn't know about those either. I come from Long Island, NY. We have snow and some mild hurricanes but never a tornado. (Although they did have one after I left!)

Welcome to GA!

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Here is a dumb question but would there be scorpions in Tennessee and Georgia too? What would keep them from crossing the stateline and heading north to Kentucky and Indiana

It seems (in AZ anyway) that scorpions live in areas where it doesn't snow in the winter... We are very lucky to live above the snow line and get really good freezes during the winter. I might be wrong but having lived all over AZ, it is all I can come up with as to why we do NOT have them here.

I vividly remember the time when I had a newborn and there was a scorpion clinging to the ceiling above his crib one morning -- squish.

Shoes and fly swatters work great!