The living habits of Scorpion

Scorpions are completely carnivorous, and very few species eat a small amount of plant feed (such as scorpion) and feed on invertebrates such as spiders, crickets, centipedes, larvae of many insects and nymphs. It uses auditory hairs or tarsal hairs and suture sensors on its tentacles to find the location of its prey. Desert scorpion can identify cockroaches that live in caves 50 centimeters deep. When the scorpion feeds, it clamps the catch with its tentacles, lifts its rear abdomen (scorpion tail), bends to the front of the body, and stings with a poison needle. It is composed of six segments, which is trapezoidal, with a head on the back, which is densely covered with granular protuberances, the muscles outside the venom glands contract, and the venom flows out of the hole of the poison needle. Most scorpions have enough toxins to kill insects, but they are not fatal to humans and only cause severe burning pain. The scorpion slowly tore open the food with its chelate limbs, sucked the body fluid of the catch, then spit out the digestive juice, digested its tissue in vitro and then inhaled it. The eating rate is very slow.

Scorpions belong to animals that lie dormant during the day and come out at night. They are afraid of being dry in the tide and afraid of strong light stimulation in the dark. Like to live in groups, very quiet and motionless, and have the habit of knowing the nest and recognizing the group, most scorpions live together in fixed nests. Generally speaking, in large groups of scorpion nests, there are mostly male and female, big and small, live in harmony, and rarely kill each other. But if it is not the same nest of scorpions, they tend to kill each other after meeting.

Scorpions have hibernating habits, usually in the middle and last ten days of April, that is, after waking, they begin to hibernate slowly in early November, and the activity time for the whole year is about 6 months. During the day, scorpions usually come out from 8pm to 11:00 after sunset and return to their nests at 2am to 3am the next day. This kind of activity is usually in the warm, windless, dry night, but rarely comes out in windy weather.

Although scorpions are variable temperature animals, they are still relatively hardy and heat-resistant. Scorpions can survive at temperatures ranging from 40 ℃ to minus 5 ℃. The growth, development and reproduction of scorpions are closely related to temperature. When the temperature dropped below 10 ℃, the scorpion became inactive, and when the temperature was below 20 ℃, the scorpion had less activity, and the most suitable temperature for their growth and development was between 25 and 39 ℃. When the temperature is 35-39 ℃, the scorpion is the most active and the growth and development is accelerated. The birth and mating are mostly in this temperature range. When the temperature exceeds 41 ℃, the water in the scorpion is evaporated. If the temperature is not cooled in time and the water is not replenished in time, the scorpion is prone to dehydration and death. Scorpions die quickly when the temperature exceeds 43 ℃. The activity, growth and reproduction of scorpion are closely related to temperature, and the optimum temperature is between 35 and 38 ℃. Therefore, we must pay attention to master when we breed scorpions in captivity.

The growth and reproduction of scorpions are also closely related to the humidity of the external environment. Wild scorpions in nature, if there is no rain for a long time, they will go to a wet place about 1 meter underground to hide and hide; when there is water on the ground in cloudy and rainy weather, they will climb to higher ground to hide. Therefore, when raising scorpions, we should pay close attention to the moisture of feed and the humidity of feeding grounds and nests. Generally speaking, the activity places of scorpions are more wet, while the nests where they live are required to be slightly drier, which is conducive to the growth, development and reproduction of scorpions. If the nest is too wet, it is easy to be attacked by microorganisms, and it is also very difficult for scorpions to molt their skin; if the activity place of scorpions is too dry, and when there is not enough water in the feed, it will also affect the normal growth and development of scorpions, and even induce each other to kill each other.

Scorpions like to be afraid of light, especially the stimulation of strong light, but they also need a certain amount of light to absorb the heat of the sun, improve digestion, speed up growth and development, and facilitate the hatching process of embryos in pregnant scorpions. According to reports and observations, scorpions have a positive trend for weak light and a negative trend for strong light, but they prefer to move under weaker green light.

Scorpions have a strong avoidance to all kinds of strong odors, such as paints, gasoline, kerosene, asphalt and various chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, quicklime and so on. It can be seen that their sense of smell is very sensitive, and the stimulation of these substances is very disadvantageous to scorpions, even fatal. Scorpions are also very sensitive to all kinds of strong vibrations and sounds, and sometimes even scare them away, stopping feeding, mating, breeding, giving birth, and so on.