Brazilian yellow scorpion

Tityus serrulatus

The Brazilian yellow scorpion is a pale yellow scorpion from Brazil with a long tail curled over its back.

Fun fact: this one is not an insect. It is an arachnid with eight legs, a cousin of the spiders.

Lives in

Brazil, more and more in towns and cities

Length

5 to 7 cm (2 to 2.8 in)

Top speed

about 2.2 km/h (1.4 mph)

On foot, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Dangerous: look, do not touch

What does it eat?

It eats insects, especially cockroaches. It can go for months without eating anything.

How big is it?

as long as 2 toy building bricks in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 1.6 seconds

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A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)

Brazilian yellow scorpion about 2.2 km/h (1.4 mph)

A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

cool stuff

It likes cities, because there are lots of cockroaches to eat and places to hide in drains and rubbish heaps.

Usually the mother makes babies all by herself, without a father.

It has eight legs, like a spider, because scorpions are relatives of spiders.

you asked

?What does the Brazilian yellow scorpion eat?

Insects, especially cockroaches.

?How big is the Brazilian yellow scorpion?

It is about 5 to 7 centimetres long.

Tityus serrulatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
Picture by José Roberto Peruca from Araçatuba/SP, Brasil. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.

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