How Dangerous To Me Is This Scorpion?

[Cuban]

I found this in my bathroom one night last week, light brown spotted Opisthosoma (had to look that up) - fast running, sadly the bowl I used to trap it removed the sting along with half the tail. It was 'dispatched' via drowning there in the bathroom, although I'm sure that they eat less desriable bugs and beetles but I can't really afford to have a stinging thing running around the house with dogs, kids and my bare feet milling about too.

How Dangerous?

From this site - http://pagesperso-orange.fr/eycb/scorpions/Gasie.htm

I'm thinking a Lychas Mucronatus (Chinese Swimming Scorpion - this one didn't swim at all!), I've read a little on fourms for people that keep them as pets - my interest is solely in how quickly do I need to kill it, sorry for to those that see me as anti-bug, but I'm happy to allow them to live in the wilds were I avoid stepping on them if they avoid the inside of the house at night.

FYI แมงป่อง = scorpion

[Mario2008]

Scorpions in Thailand are very painful, but not deadly. You have deadly scorpions, but for these you have to go to Africa, like the sahara/Marroco.

[tonytigerbkk]

When I first came to Thailand I was leaning on the door post and looking out at the torrential rain when I falt something walking across my forearm, yes a scorpion.

I brushed it off and about 10 minutes later i felt a dull throbbing which lasted about 20 minutes.

it was less painful than a bee sting or even an ant bit.

Saying that, some people are apparently allergic to the sting and it that case it could be dangerous.

Tiger.

[Just1Voice]

As Mario pointed out, in most cases they can be painful, but not seriously dangerous to you unless you happen to have an allergy to them, such as some people do in regards to bee stings.

As for me, I'll take the scorpions over the 12" long baby cobra that got dropped on my patio last week. Apparently it had been captured by a bird, but somehow managed to wiggle loose and fell on my patio just about 10 feet from me. The birds immediately swooped down and started making a racket, trying to get it back, but were unable to and finally flew off, leaving this not so charming 12" of possible death sliding around on my patio. I yelled for my wife, who looked out the window, then came flying out the door with a sponge mop in one hand, a meat cleaver in the other. She used the mop to trap it, when the cleaver to cut off the head. Both pieces were then collected and tossed in the trash. While not necessarily afraid of them, I have a healthy respect for cobras from my time in Vietnam, and would just as soon not have them "dropping in" at any time. I'll have to talk to the birds about that. lol

[Cuban]

Thanks for the comments, renforce my own thoughts. I've encountered the larger solid looking black ones before (normally running around the paved area when it's raining) I understand their sting is on a par with a bee sting and assume that the larger pincers and muscle means that it needs a less potent poison in it's sting. Hence a smaller less fiece looking scorpion might be packing a more potent sting.

My neighbor has vipers in his garden - so for snakes I'm much better informed. (Tend not to have to kill them - I've caught and relocated various sizes un-damaged from our house.)

[tw25rw]

There's a general rule with scorpions that the more delicate their pincers, the more dangerous their sting. So the robust black ones with big pincers are less venomous than the small grey ones with fine pincers.

I like animals and hate killing things, but scorpions must be the most sinister looking creatures..

[Thongkorn]

There is a type of millipede that is in Thailand, its about 5/6 inches long . although it looks harmless it can give a nasty sting. I have seen the all over Thailand, in built up areas and in there jungle,the Thais kill them if they see them ,

[monty]

There is a type of millipede that is in Thailand, its about 5/6 inches long . although it looks harmless it can give a nasty sting. I have seen the all over Thailand, in built up areas and in there jungle,the Thais kill them if they see them ,

The millipedes are harmless, it's the centipedes which can be nasty. Extremely painful bite, can be deadly for the weak elderly and infants.

For most people just painful (very!) unless, as with all lightly poisonous animals, if you have an allergy to their poison it can still be deadly.