Instead, they patiently sit and wait to ambush prey. As a result, scorpions are not fussy eaters and will kill anything smaller that gets within reach. Scorpion species differ mainly in their habits. Scorpions eat mainly insects, spiders, centipedes. Larger scorpions may eat lizards, small snakes, mice.
Scorpions are cannibals and often eat each other.
In some species, adult scorpions are the main predator of scorpion babies . But they are not the biggest because they are flat. Pandinus from Central Africa, and Heterometrus from Indochina, which may reach 17cm. Longest lived is Urodacus yashenkoi at 24 years. Incomplete, no egg or pupal stage.