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Current Pest Threat

Winter is when bugs begin to find places to nest. Many times those place are in the warm walls of the home, crackes in the fence, and inthe ground. Winter treatments are very important for disrupting the nesting bugs to avoid bigger problems in the summer.

Scorpions

It’s hard to feel sorry for a scorpion, but if you were pregnant for 80 percent of the year, you might be a bit cranky, too.

Female striped bark scorpions spend the majority of their lives hefty with young, and that has made them slower than their male counterparts and more likely to sting, Bradley Carlson of Pennsylvania State University and colleagues report.

Striped bark scorpions are medium-sized arthropods commonly found in the southern United States and northern Mexico, where they eat small invertebrates and, in turn, get eaten by birds, snakes and other critters.

Stinging actually isn’t the best option for dealing with a predator because producing venom has a metabolic cost, and replacing that venom takes time. “It is perhaps unsurprising that scorpions would sometimes avoid stinging if other options (e.g. fleeing) are available,” the researchers write.

But for a female scorpion trying to gestate her young, well, being big and slow limits those options. Stinging is her best bet.