COOL DETAILS ABOUT SCORPIONS

DESPITE HAVING 6 TO 12 EYES, SCORPIONS HAVE

POOR VISION. INSTEAD, THEY LOCATE THEIR PREY

THROUGH SCENT AND GROUND VIBRATIONS

THE BELIEF THAT SCORPIONS COMMIT SUICIDE

BY STINGING THEMSELVES TO DEATH WHEN

SURROUNDED BY FIRE IS A MYTH. THEY ARE NOT

KNOWN TO HAVE SUCH SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR

AND IF EVEN THEY HAD, THEIR VENOM HAS

NO EFFECT ON THEMSELVES

SCORPIONS ARE KNOWN TO GLOW WHEN EXPOSED

TO CERTAIN WAVELENGTHS OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT.

SCIENTISTS ARE NOT SURE OF THE PURPOSE FOR

THIS FLUORESCENCE BUT IT MIGHT HELP THE SCORPIONS

DETECT LIGHT

SCORPION BABIES ARE CALLED SCORPLINGS.

THEY RIDE ON THEIR MOTHER´S BACK UNTIL

THEIR FIRST MOULT

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FASCINATED WITH SCORPIONS

FOR MILLENNIA. THE ARACHNIDS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT

ROLE IN SOME OLD CIVILIZATIONS´ MYTHOLOGIES AND

A ZODIAC SIGN WAS NAMED AFTER THEM

SCORPIONS CAN INGEST FOOD ONLY IN A LIQUID FORM;

THEY HAVE EXTERNAL DIGESTION. THE DIGESTIVE

JUICES FROM THE GUT ARE EGESTED ONTO THE

FOOD AND THE DIGESTED FOOD IS THEN SUCKED

IN LIQUID FORM

FEMALES ARE USUALLY LARGER THAN MALES.

OCCASIONALLY, THE FEMALE EVEN KILLS

AND EATS THE MALE AFTER MATING

AS NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, SCORPIONS USUALLY ONLY

COME OUT AT NIGHT. IN FACT, SOME SPECIES SPEND UP

TO 97% OF THEIR LIVES IN THEIR BURROWS