Mar 28th, 2011 at 8:00AM: When travelers visit Kruger National Park in South Africa they expect to see plenty of wildlife. Most come hoping to spot the "Big Five" which includes lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, and rhinos, but they'll also see plenty of zebras, monkeys, and hippos too. What most don't know is that South Africa also has more than 160 species of scorpions and countless spiders as well. While those ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Hunting scorpions in South Africa's Kruger National Park
Mar 28th, 2011 at 8:00AM: When travelers visit Kruger National Park in South Africa they expect to see plenty of wildlife. Most come hoping to spot the "Big Five" which includes lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, and rhinos, but they'll also see plenty of zebras, monkeys, and hippos too. What most don't know is that South Africa also has more than 160 species of scorpions and countless spiders as well. While those ...Passenger on Southwest flight stung by scorpion
Jul 22nd, 2009 at 12:00PM: First snakes on a plane, now scorpions.
Doug Herbstommer was traveling from Phoenix to Indianapolis on Southwest Airlines and was apparently carrying some non-TSA approved items in his carry-on. As he was rummaging through his bag, he was stung by a scorpion, identified as an Arizona bark scorpion, which had presumably gotten into his bag in Phoenix and come along for the ride. The sting of this ...A Scorpion Queen is crowned in Thailand
Jan 25th, 2009 at 4:30PM: Imagine finding a scorpion in your bag on your trip through customs. That's what happened to my friend on her way from Oaxaca back to the States. She had thought her boyfriend had planted a fake scorpion when she found a real one sitting atop her clothes during the bag checkpoint. Now multiply that scorpion by 5,000 and live with them in a glass-enclosed showroom of a mall for 33 days. That's ...
No Wrong Turns: Snakes and Spiders and Scorpions...Oh My!
May 6th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Traveling allows us to experience many new things: unique cultures, languages, food and wildlife. I am always up to experience it all but it's the creepy crawlies that fall under the "wildlife" category that I'd prefer not to encounter--no matter how hard I try to avoid bugs they somehow always know where to find me. The other night, just before I was about to hop into bed, I happened to notice ...Scorpions on a Plane!!
Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:17PM: A man flying on United between Chicago and Burlington, Vermont, was stung twice by a scorpion that made it onto his plane.
TSA agents were able to wrestle the interloper to the deck and rescue the hapless passengers. They frisked the scorpion, wanded him, paraded him through a metal detector, then released him and wished him a pleasant connecting flight.
Shockingly, it's not the first time. On ...
