…e also related to the true scorpions. The biggest difference between false scorpions and scorpions is the size (false scorpions are small) and the fact that false scorpions have no venom hook on their tail. In fact, they have no tail! False scorpions can be disturbing to get in touch with as one will think it is an actual scorpion or perhaps a scorpion cub. However, a false scorpion can always be recognized by the lacking tail and venom hook. If t…
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False scorpion
(Latin: Chelifer cancroides) Aka. Book scorpion or pseudoscorpion False scorpion, Pseudoscorpion, Chelifer cancroides False scorpions have four pairs of legs and they move about very rapidly, both back- wards and forwards. They can be found, for instance, in a pile of papers or books that has lain slightly damp for some time. They somewhat resemble tiny scorpions because they have a pair of deadly pincers. When moving around false scorpions hold…
Water bugs
…n still water. (Ib Andersen) The water scorpion, Nepa cinerea, lives in shallow ponds and lakes where it crawls around on water plants. It sits in wait and grabs its prey with its first pair of legs, which are converted to hooks which are reminiscent of a scorpion’s pincers. Water scorpions have a long breathing tube which forms a respiratory tail. It uses the breathing tube to stay connected to the surface of the water. It looks like a sting but…
Predatory beetles
…eens. The reason for the issues, is that this specific species can mimic a scorpion if it feels threatened. It bends the hind body upwards mimicking a scorpion’s tail. However, the large predatory beetle is completely and utterly harmless as it has no sting or venom. The large predatory beetle has powerful cheekbones. These cheekbones are used in nature when hunting pray, and they are not able to bite through human skin. Prevention and control As…
Scorpions
Scorpions Scorpions (Scorpiones) feed on insects and spiders which they catch with their palps and – sometimes – kill with their venomous stinger, which otherwise is primarily a defensive weapon. There are no Danish species. (Pseudoscorpions are harmless Danish animals that do not have anything to do with the real scorpions). Scorpions belong in the tropics and subtropics. Fig. 97. The scorpion. (Sci.Am.) Several smaller species can be seen in so…
Index
…ristalis tenax Ernobius mollis Euscorpius italicus Falco tinnunculus False scorpion Fan-bearing wood-borer Fannia canicularis Firebrat Flat grain beetle Fleas faeces Flies, faeces Flour beetle Flour mite scent Flour moth Fly bug Forest flies Forficula auricularia Formicoidea Fungus Fungus beetles Furniture beetles faeces Gamasid mites Garden ant Gas trodes ferrugineus Geophilus carpophagus German cockroach German wasp Gibbium psylloides Glycyphagu…
Arthropod structure
…wo pairs of mouthparts of which one pair is in the forms of pincers. False scorpions are broadly speaking built as the true scorpions, but they lack the tail and sting. Mites also have four pairs of legs, but the head, thorax and abdomen are fused to form a body showing no apparent segmentation. Harvestmen also have an apparently unsegmented body, but are much larger than the mites, and the four pairs of legs are extremely long in relation to the…
Scorpions
Scorpion ( Latin: Scorpiones ) Scorpions are animals of the tropics and subtropics and some species, such as Euscorpius italicus, occur in Southern Europe. They shun the light and hide during the day under rocks or loose bark; some species hide in crevices in houses. Scorpions produce live young which are at first tended by the mother, and in fact they are carried round on her back for the first couple of weeks. Scorpions feed on insects and spid…
Devil’s coach-horse
…this beetle assumes a posture with the abdomen bent upwards, rather like a scorpion. This is, however, an empty threat for the beetle can neither sting nor bite with its abdomen. What then is the function of this behaviour pattern? It is, indeed, a fact that some people are frightened by it, and it is quite likely that the beetle’s natural enemies, insectivorous birds and mammals, are also scared by it. When seized a staphylinid will naturally try…
Index
…onatus Rhipicephalus sanguineus Ring worm Saliva Sarcoptes scabiei Scabies Scorpiones Scutigera coleoptrata Sebocan Seven-spot lady bug Simuliidae Siphonaptera Solitary bees Spider Spiders Spilopsyllus cunicu1i Spirokæt-infektion Squirrel fleas Stable fly Stenepteryx hirundinis Stinging hairs Stinging jellyfish Stinging tentacles Stomoxys calcitrans Storage mite Storage mites Storm bug Stueflue Stylostom Sucking louse Sulphur ointment Tabanidae Ta…