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Tom Crutchfield, also known as Tommy, is an American reptile breeder known for his extensive Homestead, Florida, facility and his 1999 arrest and conviction under Operation Chameleon for trafficking in exotic animals and violating the Lacey Act, which temporarily suspended his business.
The deathstalker is one of the most dangerous species of scorpions. [10] [11] Its venom is a powerful mixture of neurotoxins, with a low lethal dose. [12]While a sting from this scorpion is extraordinarily painful, it normally would not kill a healthy adult human.
A water scorpion (Nepa cinerea) climbing on leaves of European waterclove (Marsilea quadrifolia) before flying away It lives in ponds , small rivers, and stagnant water , and feeds upon aquatic animals, especially insects .
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[4] In the arid regions inhabited by the southern grasshopper mouse, the Arizona bark scorpion is plentiful and avoided by most predators because of the very painful sting it can inflict. The grasshopper mouse can feed on this scorpion with impunity even when the scorpion stings it repeatedly in the face. [5]
The black fat-tailed scorpion belongs to the genus Androctonus, which can be translated into "man-killer". [7] The species name is bicolor which is translated into having two-colors, [8] which could be referring to their brown-black coloration. [5] Scorpions are under the class Arachnida, because they are arachnids that have eight legs. [6]
The taxonomy of scorpions deals with the classification of this predatory arthropod into 13 extant families and about 1,400 described species and subspecies. In addition, 111 described taxa of extinct scorpions are known.
The scorpion is a predator of a range of arthropods. It only hunts prey smaller than itself. It only hunts prey smaller than itself. It has been seen hunting isopods such as Armadillidium vulgare , centipedes in the genus Cryptops and Scutigera , earwigs like Forficula auricularia , crickets like Gryllus campestris and Nemobius syvestris , as ...