### animal | arthropod:

Scorpion
* All scorpion flies go through the same general life cycle.
* All scorpions are capable of stinging
  - exclusively carnivorous
  - nocturnal and generally venture from their shelters at night to forage for prey
  - venomous
  - viviparous and the females carry the newly-hatched young on their backs
* All scorpions have a certain amount of venom
  - hard skin also called an exo skeleton
  - an additional five segments after the initial seven, ending in a sharp sting
  - eight legs and two pincers
  - kill prey with their pincers
* Every scorpion constructs a burrow and there is only one scorpion per burrow.
* Most scorpions are loners because of their cannibalistic tendencies
  - attack prey
  - attract scorpions
  - avoid predation
  - breathe air
  - burrow into sand
  - carry stingers
  - digest prey
  - drink water
* Most scorpions eat crickets
  - feeder crickets
  - emerge at nights
  - establish colonies
  - feed on insects
  - find in deserts
  - has-part legs
* Most scorpions have cheliceras
  - claws
  - color
  - distinct color
  - outer shells
* Most scorpions have soft outer shells
  - tails
  - undersides
  - yellow color
* Most scorpions hide in cracks
  - under logs, rocks, boards and clutter
* Most scorpions live in deserts
  - various habitats
  - occur in habitats
* Most scorpions possess metabolism
  - venomous sting
* Most scorpions prefer deserts
  - warm, dry climates common to Arizona, California and New Mexico
  - prey on grasshoppers
  - produce venom
  - rely on prey
  - reproduce sexually
  - resemble scorpions
  - search for prey
* Most scorpions show dimorphism
  - sexual dimorphism
* Most scorpions survive several weeks
  - whole years
  - use tails
* Some scorpion antivenins to treat scorpion sting.
* Some scorpion antivenins to treat severe scorpion sting
* Some scorpions are born with two tails, which is considered a genetic abnormality
  - attract mates
* Some scorpions can go for a year without food
  - live their whole live relying only on the moisture in the food
  - survive a whole year with no food
* Some scorpions cause death
  - injuries
  - change over time
  - eat cockroaches
  - feed on vertebrates
* Some scorpions have amaze ability
  - effects
  - exoskeletons
  - lifespans
  - plates
  - small stings and others have big stings
  - triangular plates
  - weapons
  - live indefinitely without drinking
  - possess glands
* Some scorpions reach adulthood
  - maturity
  - wait at their burrows to ambush their prey
* abound in tropical and warm temperate countries.
* absorb fluids through the flesh and organs of their prey.
* add to the legend of scary arachnids.
* adore warm, damp, and dark places.
* also come out from their shelters in the evening
  - find daytimehiding places in crawl spaces, attics, and closets
* also have a pair of enlarged pinchers at their front, which they use to grab prey
  - hide under rocks, in surface cracks, and in the bark of live or fallen trees
* approach scorpions.
* are a greater problem in the north-western Cape than snakes
  - member of the Arachnida class and are closely related to spiders, ticks , and mites
  - able to go up to a year without eating thanks to their specialized metabolisms
  - active at night, feeding on insects such as cockroaches or house crickets
  - all poisonous to a greater or lesser degree
* are also potentially dangerous
  - symbols of Africa, veracity, the earth, dialectic, and logic
  - amazing animals, but they can pack a painful sting
  - ambush hunters
* are among the most feared animals
  - resistant animals to the dangerous effects of radiations
  - oldest arachnids
  - an independent species , only relying on their mother until they reach maturity
* are arachnids sometimes mistaken for insects
  - that possess eight legs
  - arthropods with six legs and stingers on the ends of their tails
  - at home in the desert
  - attracted to dark, moist spaces
  - cannibals and often eat each other
* are capable of reducing their metabolic rates to very low levels
  - carnivores and feed on crickets
  - carnivorous animals and the food consists of small insects and spiders
  - carnivorous, feeding mostly on insects and spiders
  - classified as arachnids, the same as spiders
  - close relatives of ticks, mites, and spiders
  - common in desert regions
* are common in the arid and semiarid regions
  - canyon and stings occur with regularity
  - common, and their bites are extremly painful and sometimes fatal
  - dangerous and mysterious creatures that when captured many kill themselves
  - different from other arachnids
  - easy pickings for hungry meerkats
  - eight legged venomous arachnids
  - entirely carnivorous
  - essentially tropical creatures, though a few species are found in the south of Europe
  - fairly common in hilly regions of India particularly on slopes of hills
  - found mostly in the Southern and Western states
  - from the family of arachnids along with spiders
  - generally large arachnids
  - gonochoristic with complex mating behavior resulting in transfer of spermatophores
  - inhabitants of warm countries all over the world
* are known for having bad eyesight, so they tend to walk along walls
  - hiding and waiting for their prey
  - land-dwelling arthropods
  - located in tropical rainforests
  - military units
* are more aggressive
  - common, but less deadly
* are most abundant and diverse in warmer climates
  - night hunters
* are nocturnal and feed mainly on insects and spiders
  - hide during the day
  - prefer warm, dry climates
  - typically shelter by day
  - very active during the summer months
  - creatures that resist stinging unless provoked or attacked
  - feeders that avoid high-intensity light
* are nocturnal hunters feeding at night and hiding during the day
  - so they only come out during the cooler hours of the night
  - or diurnal, and are considered predatory animals that feed on other insects
  - predators feeding primarily on insects and other arthropods
* are nocturnal, have eight legs and have a tail that curves upward toward the back
  - hiding during the day to conserve moisture
  - non-insect arthropods
  - notorious for hiding in boots
  - often misunderstood
  - one of the better known predators and one of the most feared by humans
  - only able to ingest liquids so the solid matter is discarded after feeding
  - opportunistic predators of small arthropods and insects
  - paramilitaries
  - part of the natural environment
  - people
  - poisonous because otherwise they'd never get respect with that many appendages
  - predatory arthropods
  - predatory, using their venom to subdue their prey and for defense
  - primarily active at night, and they sting when provoked or disturbed
  - quiet creatures, only emerging at night to hunt
  - relatively inactive during the daylight hours
  - roller coasters
  - sensitive to light, so they are primarily nocturnal
  - similar to spiders
* are solitary creatures and never live in groups
  - creatures, interacting only to mate or to prey upon one another
* are the most sexual of the signs in terms of cravings and desires
  - oldest known arthropods that live on land
  - typically nocturnal animals, hiding in the day and foraging at night
  - unusual among arachnids in having life spans that last more than one season
* are venomous animals
  - predatory arthropods with highly effective sensory mechanisms
* are very aggressive and are quick to sting
  - distinctive arthropods
  - vulnerable because they have the lowest rate of reproduction among arthropods
* become nocturnal when they are old enough to hunt and feed
  - problems
* belong to a phylum of joint-legged animals with external skeletons called arthropods
  - the few dangerous species
  - through four pairs of book lungs on the underside of their abdomen
* burrows can be a meter deep, depending on the dryness of the location.
* can be as short as an inch long, but their sting is deadly.
* can control how much venom is injected in a sting
  - the amount of venom injected
  - hide in clothing, luggage and shipping containers
  - interpret vibrations transmitted through both the air and the ground
  - live for three to seven years
  - only digest food in a liquid form, so any solid matter is usually filtered out
* cause significant threats to the public health in most of Latin America.
* come all different sizes
  - in a variety of colors - from tan to light brown to black
* display tendencies.
* eat a variety of insects, spiders, other scorpions and lizards
  - wide variety of food
  - insects and spiders, and are most active at night
* eat mainly insects and spiders
  - insects, spiders, centipedes
* engage in activities.
* enter homes in search of food and moisture.
* exhibit several antipredator adaptations.
* feed on insects and other small arthropods , including other scorpions.
* feed on insects, and their presence is due to insect food in the area
  - spiders, centipedes, and other scorpions
  - mainly spiders, centipedes, a variety of other insects, and other scorpions
  - other bugs
  - spiders and soft-bodied insects
* find in arizona deserts
* fluoresce with a greenish colour under long-wave UV light.
* fly larvae keep themselves buried in the soil, avoiding predation above the soil.
* generally hide during the day and are active at night.
* glow in the dark
  - ultraviolet light
* goes into shock in cold water and goes limp.
* grow and shed their entire exoskeleton several times before they are full grown
  - by shedding their hard outer shells
* have a bad reputation mostly because of movies
  - primitive nervous system
  - six-segmented abdomen
  - venomous stinger on the tip of their tail
  - worldwide distribution
  - an articulated body
* have eight legs and a pair of lobster-like pinchers and a tail that curves up
  - legs, two palps, one stinger, and the eyes depend on species
  - fronts
  - great personal magnetism
  - hair on their feet for burrowing, and long straight claws to seize and crush prey
* have many mating rituals before reproduction
  - ways to survive in the desert
  - multiple eyes like other arachnids, but they have poor eyesight
  - night habits
  - pale color
  - pincer claws and a stinger
  - pincers, eight legs and a long tail with a stinger at the tip
  - poisonous stingers on their tails
  - slow development
  - small eyes and very poor vision
  - some of the most light sensitive vision amongst animals
  - three parts, adding a tail to the arachnid cephalothorax and abdomen
  - two body regions, the cephalothorax and the abdomen
* hibernate during the cold months of the year.
* hunt at nights
* includes brains
  - carapaces
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - skulls
  - thoraxes
  - vacuoles
* increase in weight until the exoskeleton has become too small to allow further growth.
* is an arachnoid
  - finished with a durable black powder coating
* like to live in cool, damp places like basements, wood piles, and junk piles.
  - very dry climates
  - warm countries in most parts of the world
  - warmer habitats than spiders and can live four or five months without food
* live on every continent except Antarctica and are found in almost every kind of habitat
  - insects, but they kill and devour their own species as well
* look like a lobster with a sharp stinger on the end of their long, skinny tails.
* mature faster in warmer weather.
* molt an average of six times before maturity.
* naturally glow under UV-light.
* often have a great deal of magnetism
  - shelter in shoes or clothing
* only know how to sting and kill.
* pedipalps are pincers.
* perceive the world through visual, tactile, and chemical sense organs.
* perform a mating dance by clasping each others pincers and dance around.
* popular subject of cosplay among both men and women.
  - to be in dark, moist places
  - warm and relatively dry habitats
* prey chiefly upon insects but spiders, millipedes and centipedes are also eaten.
  - insects, spiders and other invertebrates
* pro- duce living young, which stay a week or more upon their mother's back.
* range from the Gulf States to California and north into the dry areas of the west.
* react to ants, eat crickets, and carry babies on their backs.
  - smell and vibrations to find each other for mating purposes
* remain sheltered in the daytime and become active at night.
* represent a special type of arthropod.
* reproduce sexually and all species have individual males and females
  - small lobsters with raised, jointed tails bearing a stinger in the tip
* rest during the day.
* seek shelter in bedclothes.
* sense in-coming prey by air and ground vibrations.
* share features
  - several features
* shed their exoskeleton.
* shows how to defend and attack when needed.
* sometimes prey on each other, but their main food is the woodlouse.
* strike terror in many people and have been both hated and admired since ancient times.
* survive on various insects and small animals, such as rodents
* tend to live in hostile environments, and are difficult to distinguish between species
  - the ground but they are also going to be found living in the trees
* to conserve venom.
* typically produce live young instead of laying eggs.
* use a small, clawlike structure that protrudes from their mouths called chelicerae
  - the pincers to capture and hold prey
* use their pincers to capture and crush prey
  - grab and tear apart smaller prey
* usually feed on insects and spiders
  - hide during the day and become active at night when they feed and mate
+ Scorpion, Relationships with others: Arachnids
  * Scorpions are an independent species, only relying on their mother until they reach maturity. It is not uncommon for a scorpling to kill another one of its siblings in a competition for food. How a scorpion chooses its mate is not certain, but many predict it is a random event, depending on chance meetings.