PSA: Some of y'all are overly afraid of scorpions

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So the one in the old fable was even more of a dick than we’d been led to believe. Got it. Image

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, the frog would die from the sting, the scorpion would die from drowning if it’s not the kind that can swim.

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, but that is less fun for my dad-joke purposes.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nice try scorpions

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  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    OP is scorpions

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One time I woke up in the middle of the night to pee, and I swear I saw a scorpion in the bathroom. Freaked out like the 8 year old I was, woke my parents up. They turned on the light to the bathroom and the dog had pooped on the floor.

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So the scorpion scared the dog, too. Dang.

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• WagnasT@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They may even adorably hide in the leaves of the skimmer to give you surprise tickles.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why are you like this.

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  • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember once opening the door to a garage (with a gravel floor), hundreds of the little guys immediately dove in to the gravel. It was… fine. I was… fine.

    Conversely, I was at a snake petting zoo and they had an arachnid room. There was a big ol’ scorpion there covered with it’s babies taking a ride and it was honestly very cute! (This was thousands of miles from home, so that helped too.)

    In summary: Scorpions… sometimes?

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, at least some of them can’t kill you! My dad got stung by one once. The ER told him the local scorpions just hurt if they stung you but to come back if he had an allergic reaction.

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  • WagnasT@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Generally, if they have big scary looking claws they are less reliant on their tail so their tickles aren’t so spicy. Conversely, if they have tiny claws they are heavily reliant on tail tickles.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So no more swimming ever again, got it. I enjoyed it while I could!

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• hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is this a common thing? The one I found one time in my pool was dead, so I couldn’t ask him what he was doing there.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It depends on the species mostly

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• pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Scorpions are amazing. They are older than trees and one of the earliest animals to crawl out of the ocean.

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• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Look, washing myself was never an option.

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