Look who came to dinner last night.
It was happily living in the hot, dry garage beneath a cooler.
We made it 13 months in our AZ home before seeing even a trace of these things.
And we have been looking.
Some time ago, Cori procured a black light flashlight and he has made regular sweeps of the house and property.
The funny thing is that just Sunday night, he made a sweep and, as usual, found nothing.
Determined to find a scorpion somewhere, we set out into the neighborhood. We finally found a concrete wall that faces an unlandscaped plot and that is guarded from street and house lights. Sure enough, there was a floss fluorescent critter RIGHT THERE . And then Grace spotted a dead snake in a very nearby bush and I was officially done with scorpion hunting for the rest of my life.
I guess we are lucky that this has been our only encounter so far. None of our neighbors have pest control problems. But we do live on the edge of a community that is cornered by a nature preserve and a 40 acre city park.
Just one more reason the cooler weather can't get here fast enough. If Phoenix wants to keep our family around, it is going to have to keep its wildlife out of our garage.
3 comments:
Ewe! *shudders* it's a pretty cool photo though.
How big is this thing? 3 feet? 4 feet? Looks huge! I agree with Danielle - cool photo - but could we get the same view in a zoo somewhere and NOT in the garage?
That gives me the creeps. But I was glad that you had to go out and search for it...and it wasn't in your house.
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