i was gathering some fire wood and turned over a log only to find this scorpion that was about the size of a silver dollar. it didnt move much and was in no hurry to get away so i let it be
Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. There are about 2,000 species of scorpions, found widely distributed south of about 49° N, except New Zealand and Antarctica. The northernmost part of the world where scorpions live in the wild is Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the UK, where a small colony of Euscorpius flavicaudis has been resident since the 1860s. The word scorpion derives from Greek ÃκοÃÂÀιÌ – skorpios.
