scorpion, n.Trivia

scorpions can live for a full year without food.

Scorpions Dance Before Mating

scorpions can stay underwater for 48 hours due to their having book lungs (like horseshoe crabs)

Books in dusty rooms are protected by pseudoscorpions (2 to 8mm long) which feed on booklice and dust mites.

The water scorpion uses a snorkel-like tube on its abdomen to breathe underwater.

Scorpions can survive being frozen and thawed and can also tolerate extreme heat up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit

Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid on Earth, at 39-million dollars per gallon.

Ticks are arachnids, not insects; relatives of spiders and scorpions

Scorpions have extremely low metabolic rates and require only a tenth of the oxygen of most insects.

Scorpions can hold their breath underwater for up to six days.

Scorpion females eat the males after mating when in captivity. In the wild, the male runs away after mating

Scorpions cannot actually breathe under water. They can however hold their breath for up to 6 days.

Scorpions glow.

Scorpions live up to 25 years in captivity