Brief Information

The scorpion is one of invertebrates, belonging to the class of arachnids. It has eight feet, and lives in hot and dry areas, hiding in burrows and cracks and under stones and rocks to seek moisture and avoid the heat of the sun.
There are about 2000 species of scorpions in the world. Most scorpions are poisonous, as the poisonous gland is located at the end of the tail, but its toxin is not considered very dangerous to humans compared to a snake bite.

Scorpion anatomy

1 = Cephalothorax or Prosoma;
2 = Abdomen or Mesosoma;
3 = Tail or Metasoma;
4 = Claws or Pedipalps
5 = Legs;
6 = Mouth parts or Chelicerae;
7 = pincers or Chelae;
8 = Moveable claw or Tarsus;
9 = Fixed claw or Manus;
10 = Sting or Aculeus ;
11 = Telson (follows anus in previous joint).

Brief Information

The scorpion’s body consists of the head and chest as a single piece, and has four pairs of legs ending with a very small gnaw, while the tail consists of rings ending with a venomous stinger with two venom sacks at the rear of the body. Scorpions with long gnaws have relatively big knots, the second of which is at the start of the tail, round shaped like a diamond.

Breeding

Most scorpions breed by means of copulation between males and females, although many species of scorpions breed by parthenogenesis. At the time of mating, the male scorpion looks for a female and when he finds it, he begins flirting (engagement behavior); in some scorpion species males and females meet to relevate their posteriors and rub their tails together, circulating around, moving back and forth, these movements can last about 10 minutes till impregnation.
Generally, the scorpion needs several months or even more than a year until it reaches maturity; the female can give birth to 2 -100 embryos at a time; some species at birth climb the back of their mothers seeking protection, and remain there at will until their fourth week of age, then they gradually begin abandoning their mother’s back to venture surroundings.
Scorpions reach sexual maturity after a period varying from 6 months to 6 years, and to some species, their life span can get them to live up to 25 years.

Senses

Scorpions do not see, their eyesight is very weak; they neither hear nor smell but they depend only on finding their ways through sensory structures by detecting vibrations to determine their prey’s destination.
Venom: Scorpion venom consists of complex enzymes and chemical compositions, some of which cause severe pains to the stung, intoxicating the body and causing disorder in breathing and heartbeat.