TexasCHLforum.com

We deal with several of these a year in our house along with multiple scorpion encounters per year. They appear much more regularly after sustained drought or rain. Scary thing is, my wife has a serious aversion to bugs and we have our house treated quarterly by a professional pest control company.

centi's are venomous, to varying decrees. If they catch your fingers with the modified claws in the back, they'll flip around and bit.

I happen to like most bugs, but these thing are too fast and too vicious.

george wrote:

WildBill wrote:There sure are come ugly creatures on this planet.

You should see my brother!

No thanks.

Ladies, relax........

We have a lot of them in the Hill Country around Leakey, I have seen some almost a foot long (scary, and they are super quick).
We have had them in house (not good) and I got stung or bite or whatever they do, on my neck. Hurt like heck for a while, then quit hurting , but had a lump for about 3 weeks and itched like crazy.

chuckybrown wrote:Ladies, relax........

There's always one...

First time I saw one of those in the wild was at Robber's Cave. Pretty frightening for a kid

Did you use birdshot or buckshot?

pbwalker wrote:I was hanging out in the garage this evening, catching up on the news and just relaxing. Out of the corner of my eye, I see some very large moving quickly. I look over and couldn't believe my eyes.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

I'm not a bug-phobe...I'm cool with Scorps...Tarantulas don't bother me. But this...no way!

I need that Barn Cat tomorrow!

Holy (censored as it would scare small children)! I don't think thats native. Please please tell me thats not native. Ever since I woke up in bed with a scorpion dozing next to my face I have determined that all bugs besides cute ladybougs and preying mantises are evil. EEEEEEEEVILLLLL!!!

RottenApple wrote:

RPB wrote:It makes little kids jump on the bed.

One of those catching me by surprise would cause ME to jump on a bed. Followed shortly by a .45 caliber hole or two appearing in the floor.

I think every law enforcement officer on the planet would look the other way if I blasted away with a shotgun, bazooka, flame thrower, or pot. YIKES!

Wienerdogtroy wrote: Holy (censored as it would scare small children)! I don't think thats native. Please please tell me thats not native. Ever since I woke up in bed with a scorpion dozing next to my face I have determined that all bugs besides cute ladybougs and preying mantises are evil. EEEEEEEEVILLLLL!!!

Yeah, they are native to central Texas, "Texas Red Headed Centipede "
first one I saw was about 1960 when my sister and I stood on a bed and refused to get down, I think that was the same trip mom reached in a paper sack and we learned about scorpions at the hospital in Burnet ... but I didn't get stung by one until 2007. My brother collects dead scorpions, well he doesn't intend to, but every time I visit him, I break open his single shot .410 shotgun and shake 3 or 4 dead ones out of the barrel. He's never had ammo, apparently he just collects dead scorpions in it.

We have them in the panhandle, too. SO gross.

LikesShinyThings wrote:Try finding two of them (over a span of three years) in your HOUSE! Yikes!
Funny thing is, for some reason I'm less concerned about these things than scorpions. Maybe because I see about a dozen scorpions in the house in a year.
Still, I love the Hill Country and don't plan on leaving it unless job situation forces it.

Mrs. Anygun and I recently purchased our retirement home near La Grange.

The second weekend we were there we had just arose in the morning. I was in the kitchen making coffee. She called me from the bedroom; her voice had that quality to it that signals to come quickly. There was a pile of bed linens on the master bedroom floor.

Mrs. Anygun: "Anygun, come here please. There is something in here. I don't have my glasses on. It looks like a roach but is not acting like one."
Me walking into MBR: "You really need to get your glasses on. That is a scorpion. This is prime scorpion habitat."
Mrs. Anygun: " Can we change our mind about the house?"

I gave the scorpion a ride down the master bath toilet whitewater ride. Since then we have had multiple encounters.

This will be interesting. If I see one of those centipedes I am likely to unleash the shotgun.

Anygunanywhere