Q. I
thought I would send this to you about scorpions in our neighborhood. I live in the Coventry homes area adjacent to
Anthem Country Club. In the past 17
nights armed with a UV light, screw drive and instant light propane torch I
have killed 205 scorpions around our house. So far we have only had two in the
house, lucky us. Is there a better way
to control the scorpions than getting out every night and hunting them
down?
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| Bark scorpion |
A. They
have been trying to get in to warm locations since it started getting cold. All
of these critters are cold-blooded so they will tend to migrate into warm
locations when temperatures cool in the fall.
Homeowners
threatened by having scorpions in their home or landscape may not get much
comfort from this comment but these guys do a lot in controlling insects. They
are insect predators. The good thing is they go after bad guys. The bad thing is
they also go after good guys. They don’t discriminate between good insects and
bad insects (from a human perspective).
There
are different approaches regarding the management of scorpions. One method is
total extermination such as you are trying to do. It will seldom be totally
effective but it will reduce their numbers considerably.
Another
management method is to put barriers down that prevent entry into the home. These
also will not be totally, 100% effective but they should greatly reduce the
numbers that enter the home. I generally recommend applying a barrier spray to
the outside of the home, similar to the type of spray used to keep out spiders
and cockroaches.
Actually
scorpions are quite easy to kill with insecticides. They are very susceptible
to them and often times are killed when they eat other insects that have come
in contact with many insecticides used for spider and roach control. Any
barrier spray application to the foundation of the home will work. I wrote a
piece on this for Viragrow.
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