Scorpion Story

Speaker 1:  0:00 – 0:02

So how long have you lived in the house?

Speaker 2:  0:02 – 0:03

Since January

Speaker 1:  0:03 – 0:07

Since January? And are you from Arizona?

Speaker 2:  0:07 – 0:08

Yes

Speaker 1:  0:08 – 0:09

Okay so your used to seeing scorpions.

Speaker 2:  0:09 – 0:11

Well I have never seen a scorpion until I moved here

Speaker 1:  0:11 – 0:15

So really? It was your first one? Are they big scorpions like that big?

Speaker 2:  0:15 – 0:16

I have a few of them

Speaker 1:  0:16 – 0:17

Oh you caught some?

Speaker 2:  0:17 – 0:18

Oh yea

Speaker 1:  0:19 – 0:20

Do you mind if we look?

Speaker 2:  0:20- 0:21

Figured it out

Speaker 1:  0:21 – 0:27

I don’t know if you can see or not, but that’s pretty typical bark scorpion.

Speaker 2:  0:27 – 0:28

Yea

Speaker 1:  0:28 – 0:30

So how many do you think you have found?

Speaker 2:  0:30 – 0:32

At least forty.

Speaker 1:  0:32 – 0:36

In about how many weeks? Or months?

Speaker 2:  0:36 – 0:37

In about a week

Speaker 1:  0:37 – 0:40

That’s pretty. That’s a lot.

Speaker 2:  0:40 – 1:00

Well before I first started spraying and first started doing all the powders and stuff like yea we found a lot. Like a couple weeks ago, I found a baby one and that’s when I realized you know what, this is it. I say this because they can have about 65 babies in live birth. That freaked me out because I thought I was actually getting rid of them.

Speaker 1:  1:00 – 1:02

So you did a lot of research. That’s good.

Speaker 2:  1:02 – 1:09

Yeah, I basically tried everything. People spent the night watching my back checking, so sleep a little bit for a few hours.

Speaker 1:  1:09 – 1:11

oh is that right?

Speaker 2:  1:11 – 1:17

Yeah. And that was getting a little bit too much. So I slept in my car a couple nights.

Speaker 1:  1:17 – 1:19

What made you think oh, I should use a tent?

Speaker 2:  1:19 – 1:34

Keep me enclosed, keep me still with a bed of some sort, we’d make sure to get some black light, we’d check all around before we laid down, got in there. We actually put some tape around it, just in case, that’s the best I found that works for the scorpions. They actually stick to the tape.

Speaker 1:  1:34 – 1:40

Now that you’ve had a scorpion service, do you actually still sleep in here?

Speaker 2:  1:41 – 2:07

No. I sleep on my bed now. Yeah, I was actually gonna put that bring this down yesterday but I just haven’t had the time. This is the only thing that works. Then anything else they would get to you or they would fall off the ceiling and scare the crap out of me. A lot. I can actually walk around my house now without running from room to room.