This is verrry topical: about 2 weeks ago my boyfriend's brother found a scorpion, about 1.5 - 2" long, amongst some bananas and gave it to my boyfriend, I'm not sure to do what with. Being an animal-lover I said I'd try and find it a home: it had been on a boat from Latin America for two weeks, then sat in a small plastic box for another week so hadn't had food or water for 3 weeks. I was thrilled when the local wildlife park agreed to take it in - they were actually rather excited as they didn't have any scorpions. This one was a bark scorpion. They rang me yesterday to say it had settled in well and after giving it some food and warmth, it had begun to run around and be more active. We called the scorpion Chris, after the keeper. Then today, one of the keepers rang me very excitedly and said that 'Chris' had given birth to 31 babies!!! And they were all sitting on her back, as they should, and she was very happy! I was amazed - apparently scopions are pregant for several months, so she obviously timed her birth well! I am so pleased it was a happy ending! My boyfriend was very pleased he hadn't killed it as he had initially thought best as we didn't know what to do with our new Latin American friend. Anyhow - good luck!
