Italian scorpion
The Italian scorpion is a small dark scorpion, reddish brown to bluish black. It is shy and calm and spends most of its life hiding. It often lives close to people, in old walls and buildings.
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Fun facts
It is the biggest scorpion in its group, but still only about 5 centimetres long at most.
Scorpion mothers give birth to live babies, and the babies climb right onto her back.
One mother can have from 9 to 62 babies at once.
It can live 4 to 8 years in the wild, and one lived over 10 years in a lab.
Most asked questions about Italian scorpion
?What does the Italian scorpion eat?
Small bugs like woodlice, earwigs, crickets, moths and spiders.
?Where does the Italian scorpion live?
Around southern Europe and North Africa, often in old walls, ruins and buildings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euscorpius italicus
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Euscorpiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Euscorpiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Italian small wood-scorpion
Where the facts come from
- Euscorpius italicus (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 Fritz Geller-Grimm. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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