Giant desert hairy scorpion
The giant desert hairy scorpion is the biggest scorpion in North America. It is yellow with a darker back, has crab-like pincers and is covered in little brown hairs. It hides in burrows during the hot day and comes out at night.
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Fun facts
Its hairs feel tiny shakes in the ground, which helps it find prey in the dark.
It can dig burrows up to 2,5 metres long.
Its babies are born alive and ride on their mother's back for a week or more.
It hunts by sitting very still and waiting until it feels something move close by.
Most asked questions about Giant desert hairy scorpion
?How big is the giant desert hairy scorpion?
It is usually 10 to 18 centimetres long, about 15 on average.
?What does the giant desert hairy scorpion eat?
Big insects, spiders, lizards, small snakes and even other scorpions.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hadrurus arizonensis
- Named by
- Ewing, 1928
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Hadruridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Hadruridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Giant hairy scorpion, Arizona Desert hairy scorpion
Where the facts come from
- Hadrurus arizonensis (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 Robb Hannawacker, while working for Joshua Tree National Park. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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