Scorpion’s Glow & 12 Other Facts About These Amazing Arachnids
Santiago ran into the house, yelling that a scorpion had bitten him! He was panicked and worried that he was going to die. Finding his Mom, he screamed, “A scorpion stung me! What do I do?”
Santiago’s Mom, having been through this a number of times before, sat Santiago down and told him that she’d get some ice cream for the sting. Santiago thought about it and had to ask, “Do I put the ice cream on the sting? And, don’t I need to go to the hospital?”.
Most scorpion stings hurt a lot but are not deadly. In many cases, the pain only lasts for a few hours. In some, it can last days. Since Santiago didn’t live where any super poisonous scorpions lived, his Mom knew he just had to wait out the pain. Ice cream always helps.
It’s rare for people to die from a scorpion sting, especially here in the United States. Out of the roughly 2,300 scorpion species worldwide, only about 30 are poisonous enough to kill a person.
Here in the United States, we only have one scorpion with potentially deadly venom. That’s the Arizona Bark Scorpion. This scorpion lives in the desert southwest. Still, in most cases, the…
