Borrowing scorpions

Wonderful!

Nice spotting and welcome to Project Noah. There is an error in the Common name field, the scientific name is mis-spelt, should be schlechteri. Common names are Burrowing Scorpions, Tri-colored Scorpions or Hissing Scorpions, you could put one of these in the Common name field if you wish as the Scientific name has its own field. Common names can be found by doing a Google search on the scientific name and can be in any language, your own, or that of the country where you saw it.

Beautiful spotting, koixtreme! Welcome to Project Noah!

wow :) nice catch

What a stunning first posting on Noah - welcome to the Project! I don't think I would let a child or be willing myself to hold it - it definitely looks very scary! Looking forward to your future postings :)

That's beautiful :D

Wow! Really scary cool!

goosebumps :)

A lot of persuasion would be needed until I allowed one of these walk on my hand...

I have moved your really cool scorpion to Arthropods. :-)

Hi kioxtreme, that is a huge scorpion! Would you mind cropping the picture so the childs face doesn't show? Cropping will also put more focus on the pretty scorpion. We don't allow human faces in pictures on this site to protect privacy, I hope you can understand this :) Have a look at our FAQ, it explains the "rules" of the site. There are also several missions for wildlife of Southern Africa you can join and add lots more spottings to! Welcome to Project Noah and we hope you enjoy the site! If you have any questions that the FAQ doesn't answer, feel free to jump on one of the chats at the bottom of the page. Look forward to seeing more of your spottings!