What kind of food do scorpions eat?

Scorpions mainly take insects as food, especially insects with high protein and low fat, soft and juicy body. It is observed that in wild conditions, scorpions usually feed on spiders, nymphs of locusts, centipedes, adults and larvae of moths, earthworms and slugs. Under feeding conditions, the feed prepared for scorpion should follow the following principles:

The food eaten by scorpions should be the fresh bait that scorpions love to eat and can promote their growth and development.

After putting into the scorpion nest, the fresh bait should be able to live with the scorpion for a period of time and do not pollute the environment.

Scorpions eat food from rich sources, at low prices, and in large quantities.

The practice shows that yellow powder insect, soft-shelled turtle worm and foreign worm are ideal feed for scorpion, and housefly larvae, earthworms, storage insects and moths are also good fodder. The auxiliary feed is melon peel, grass and leaves.

When feeding, the scorpion first uses its tentacles to catch and hold the food with a poison needle to stab the wound, slowly tear open the food with its forelimbs, absorb the body juice of the food, then spit out digestive juice to turn the food into a paste, suck the food into the midgut through the throat, and after the midgut absorbs the nutrients, transport the remaining residue to the hindgut and anus for discharge. The feces are gray and white.

Scorpions generally absorb a small amount of water only when the weather is hot or when the pond is extremely dry, usually from food and through their own body surface. Under dry and non-eating conditions during the day, the scorpion's surface absorbs about 30% of the water absorbed from the air.