This was up at the Basin campground, and it is true skunks may be less likely to be encountered at the Rio Grande village campground where we will be this year. Dear Thomas, You feeling is correct. Scorpions are not in the Class Insecta at all. They are actually much more closely related to spiders and are in the Class Arachnida. The easiest way to tell insects from arachnids is the number of legs.
Scorpions are lots of fun to watch.
Jon, As for skunks, they belong to Class Mammalia and are in the weasel tell them apart from insects and arachnids. They live from Canada to northern Mexico and prefer open woodlands and grasslands to wander about in. Skunks are especially fond of grasshoppers, crickets, and insect larvae such as white grubs, army worms, and cutworms. They will even eat wasps and bees, which they kill with their front feet. Its unlikely we'll run across a skunk in Big Bend, but they may hang around near the Rio Grande.