As more windscorpions zipped in for a free meal, I watched the ensuing carnage for hours. Once in a while, I had to wrestle an insect specimen away from one that I wanted to collect, but the windscorpion would always find a replacement for it quickly. This type of experience is my idea of unsurpassed outdoor fun and recreation. I will never understand why anyone would want to get a gun and go out to shoot some herbivore, or take a stick with a hook on a string and pull a slimy vertebrate out of its aquatic habitat. Why would anyone do that when they can simply set up a light trap and get hours of intense entertainment watching a huge variety of far more interesting animals.
Human behavior is pretty weird that way.
They're a hyper group of arachnids with about 1,000 species world-wide. Perhaps 120 or so species are present in then U.S., with most seen in the arid Southwest. Some species reach nearly three inches in length. This qualifies them as one of the largest arachnids. Unlike the name may imply, windscorpions have no stinger on their tails, or even have tails at all.