The second pair, with large claws, is used to seize and crush prey. The last four pairs are legs. The breathing pores are on the abdomen. All mother scorpions bear live young. The newly born young cling to the mother's body for several days.
Scorpions eat insects and spiders, and are most active at night.
Scorpions are fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light and are easy to spot at night by using a black light. The scorpion's sting is a curved organ at the end of its tail. Two glands at the base give out a poison that flows from two pores. A scorpion wound is painful, but rarely causes death. Scorpions belong to the class Arachnida, order Scorpiones.