Video: Information about Scorpions & Millipedes

Video Transcript

"We are going to start talking a little bit about some of the invertebrate side of the exotic pets. A couple of things we are going to look at real quick here is this is the emperor scorpion. It is one of the largest scorpions in the world. Some interesting facts about these guys they can get 6 to 8 inches long. They do have a stinger as you can see but even though this animal is large and menacing looking, the sting from it is very similar to a honey bee sting. They rarely use their stingers. If you irritate them enough, you can get them to sting you but usually just in the course of eating their food, they only use their pincers. They are so big and powerful. They just grab a bug, squeeze it and put it up to their mouth where they have little mandibles in the front which also look like small pincers. An interesting fact about the Emperor Scorpion is that this like all scorpions glow under a black light so some times these things are caught at night using a battery powered hand held flash light with a black light installed and these will glow a bright green. I wish we could do that here but if you get a chance or if you have any kind of scorpions around your place put it under an ultraviolet light and you will see. Another animal that we will look at here another invertebrate, is a giant millipede. These guys are from South America. They have lots and lots of legs and also if you see a small little bug crawling around on top of them there is a little animal that lives on them in a symbolic relationship where they take care of each other. When they get upset, these guys will exude a substance that looks sort of like beta dine and it sort of feels like beta dine right now. This is the giant millipede from South American."