Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 24, 2012 22:14:58 GMT -5
I think Benitoite glows light blue and most the scorpions I've seen glow yellow green but my book says some glow blue too. Must depend on wavelength of UV you are using.....Mel
PS: 177 and counting now *L*
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Aug 25, 2012 1:10:33 GMT -5
Heck, what do you do with all the corpses, Mel?
Grind them up for fertilizer?
Tie them to little posts outside your front and back door as a warning to all those scorpions that still live outside?
Go Norman Bates on them and stuff the little critters and put them on display?
Sell them to China as folk remedies for measles, gout, male enhancement, and tiger aphrodisiacs?
Bury them in tiny mass graves under unmarked stone?
Put them in your bird feeder?
Cover them in resin and little plaques saying Texas and sell them as paperweights and key chains?
Extract their DNA for cloning purposes?
Milk off their poison to coat your sword collection in case you ever are called out to duel another rancher over grazing rights?
Insert them into envelopes and mail them to people who piss you off?
Dry them out and make scorpion jerky? (I don't even think there's any real meat on these things...)
Put them into your tumbler as extra media?
Leave their tails on restaurant tables as tips?
Use them as models for stop motion japanese monster movies?
Slab and cab them?
Tie strings to them and drag them along hoping to sting all the cats of your neighborhood?
Take those that are still slightly alive to a local hospital and demand to see a doctor claiming that they are covered under the affordable care act?
Give them to the children of the neighborhood with the apology that you didn't mean to kill the Tooth Fairy?
I could go on, but I've already written too much....
Any of the above???
Lowell
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 25, 2012 9:37:49 GMT -5
*LMAO* Aye God Lowell, and sometimes I think I have too much time on my hands. *L*
To answer your question, the resin things have already be done. Shops around here are full of them *L*. Sword collection was sold awhile ago and converted to guns and ammo for more efficiency. Truthfully, skunks love scorpions so all the little carcasses get munched every night along with any other bugs that come into any lights we have on.....Mel
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Post by tkrueger3 on Aug 26, 2012 22:20:47 GMT -5
Mel, I was born here in San Antone, but was an Air Force brat, so moved all over the place. But a lot of growing up was right here, living with grandparents while Dad was off on some TDY or other. I had numerous experiences with the little tan boogers. I was always sticking my hands into places they didn't really belong. One of the scorpions' favorite hiding places during the day, in the urban environment, was always mailboxes, particularly the kind that used to hang on the front porch wall next to the front door. I wasn't tall enough to look inside, but I could reach with my fingers. Which made them good targets! It's a pain I'll never forget, for sure!
Tom
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 27, 2012 9:07:04 GMT -5
Dang Tom, I hope never to have that experience! Last year the wife was pulling on a pullover shirt which she was unfortunate enough not to have shaken out, and found out there was a scorpion inside the hard way. She got stung right in the kisser. She said it really hurt and, from her reaction, I believe her. Man that had to have sucked!.....Mel
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