Paruroctonus boreus...

[AK907]

Caught these little guys while on vacation in northern Wyoming here recently. They were everywhere! Not a species you see kept in captivity very often here in Ohio so I shipped a few back for myself and a friend. Mean little buggers too!

The smallest one we caught (1" or so).


Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?


This one is a load of fun. Fast and evil!

[Cendalla]

The one kinda looks gravid. Its neat seeing them with babies. I have to let my poor hubby get used to my tarantulas before I spring scorps on him. Poor guy has the patience of a saint but I think he might be getting twitchy with six snakes and thirteen tarantulas

[AK907]

The one kinda looks gravid. Its neat seeing them with babies. I have to let my poor hubby get used to my tarantulas before I spring scorps on him. Poor guy has the patience of a saint but I think he might be getting twitchy with six snakes and thirteen tarantulas

I've seen them in the wild with babies. I will spaz if it actually is gravid.

I had to sweet talk my wife into our first tarantula. She was NOT happy with the idea. Now she has three of her own. She still won't hold them (and neither will I!), but they are neat to enjoy on the other side of their cages. Because of this, convincing her to let me keep these scorpions was fairly easy.

[Mike41793]

LMAO I love it. While on vacation you guys are still in herp/invert mode lol!

[AK907]

LMAO I love it. While on vacation you guys are still in herp/invert mode lol!

Herping was most of what we did on vacation! We also brought back a 1.1 pair of Sceloporus graciosus! Why do you think we chose Wyoming?

[Mike41793]

Herping was most of what we did on vacation! We also brought back a 1.1 pair of Sceloporus graciosus! Why do you think we chose Wyoming?

Where are the pics of everything, like you promised...?

[AK907]

Where are the pics of everything, like you promised...?

Yall really want pics of the desert? I'll get some uploaded here in the next day or so. Not much to really see, though. A bunch of sagebrush, our cabin, the Wyoming Dinosaur Museum and the paint pots/geysers at Yellowstone.

[mark and marley]

Those northerns are the cutest little scorpions i ever kept. Have yours played dead for you yet? Seriously...defense mechanism I've seen only in them.

[AK907]

Those northerns are the cutest little scorpions i ever kept. Have yours played dead for you yet? Seriously...defense mechanism I've seen only in them.

Nope. I leave them alone for the most part, but every time I open their cups I get an attitude. Tongs are worth their weight in gold!