Scorpion Hunting in the Arizona Desert - Finding the Most Venomous Scorpion in North America 

Oh definitely! Can’t wait for it to warm up so I can make another one! Thanks for watching! :)

It’s a lot of fun! Great summertime activity. There are a few in the wash behind my house, but I haven’t found any in the yard yet. As soon as it warms up a little more here, I’ll do another scorpion video. Definitely easy to find them in Arizona!

We scorpion hunt everyday during summer in just our AZ backyard 😔

​@@ReganOutdoorsGreat video. I saw scorpions when I was in Italy🇮🇹 last summer. They hide in the cracks and crawl on stone walls

I hope you find it!

I would love to film that. That’s a whole lot of scorpions! Wow! Very cool.

I got 10 tonight! What do you use for killing them? I use a flat sided wooden curtain rod. Any suggestions for an upgrade, Sir Scorpion Reaper?

@@AK-hw9ij Pocket knife. I stab them in the face and dump the bodies in a small tub of soapy water. If they're knee high, I try to knock them into the tub with the knife to drown them. Sometimes, I'm not very nice.

Definitely an easy win for the Giant Desert Hairy scorpion. But I wonder who would win between a stripe-tailed and a yellow ground scorpion!

Ouch!!!

Woah! Nice work! That’s a a lot! Did you have to go far? It’s cooling off here so they’re starting to retreat for the winter. Check out my latest scorpion video. I got some great closeups of a pretty good side giant desert hairy scorpion in the wild.

@@ReganOutdoors Not very far about 10 minutes to south mountain from our house.

Oh wow. Sounds like they’re out there in numbers!Ironically, I’ve never had one in the house before but I got up at 2am and nearly stepped on one. Looks like they’re definitely still out there to an extent… though this one was probably just looking for a place to warm up.

They love washes! Even in communities. Any washes with big rocks are a magnet.

@@ReganOutdoors thx dude now I'm going to go find some

Where are they found around mansoon season, I'm in new mexico

365 all the way!

They make little tourist gifts with them. Even inside a suckers literally inside candy

Thanks so much Matthew! I’ll be filming another scorpion video real soon!

And why would that be? We used LED Blacklight handheld flashlights. Works fine. Been scorpion hunting for years.

@@ReganOutdoors you don't want to do it hands-free that's your choice. I just want others to see that high-tech is always best.

What? Have you tried using a headlamp WHILE filming? Lining up the light on your headlamp with the camera and angle you’re shooting would require you to face in that exact direction with your head and neck. That’d make for some pretty awkward and not precise filming. Not to mention a headlamp blankets the light on everything. A handheld lets you direct the light correctly. I actually shoot with the light pointed just to the side of the camera, as if it’s directly on the scorpion, the ISO on the camera gets overloaded, causing picture wash-out. Also, to pinpoint the scorpion on camera, you have to get within a few inches. I’m not sticking my head that close. If you want to use a headlamp to look at them, great. But using one to film is a terrible choice.

Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed it. If this video does well, I’ll be doing more wildlife videos. Definitely glad you don’t have to deal with scorpions. If they get in the house, bedding is a common hiding place. A lot of my friends have been stung at night. I’ve lucked out so far.

Thanks. It was a fun night.

I would love to! Florida is actually on my list for wildlife videos :)

Very cool! I don’t see a lot of them out here. Mainly striped tails and desert hairy scorpions where I’m at, but they’re definitely around! Good find! 🦂 👍🏼

Any standard black light will do. I picked mine up on Amazon for around $15. Just search the term “black light flashlight”. The brighter the better as you’ll have a larger field of view for the scorpions.

Thanks so much. Unfortunately it cooled down in Arizona and the scorpions are now hibernating for the winter. I’ll be sure to make another one when it warms back up. Glad you enjoyed it!

😃

Yikes! Bet that wasn’t a fun 24-hours... or more!

@@ReganOutdoors The worst is always the first 24 hours although I was feeling the effects of the venom for about 3 days. I climbed into bed to take a nap and there was one in the sheets with me. Stung me twice on the thigh. Area around the sting throbbed for about an hour until it went numb when the venom hit my blood stream. Ice pack and some ibuprofen helps. After that I was light headed and generally felt like crap, along with the weirdest tingling sensation. If you've ever had a limb go numb because you slept on it wrong and you feel that pins and needles feeling when the blood flow returns....imagine that expect its on your face and it lasts for hours. I'm no doctor, but after about 3 hours I was pretty sure I was having a mild reaction (no breathing problems or vomiting) so I went to bed and slept through the worst of it. 0/10 do not recommend.

@@MadJustin7 Where did that happen? What city?

@@ARedMotorcycle North Phoenix. My place at the time was right up against a desert preserve.

Oh no! So sorry to hear that! I hope she was okay. Definitely the lesser the weight the greater the impact of the venom. Arizona neighborhoods are hit or miss. Some neighborhoods have scorpions, while others don’t. And in the neighborhoods that do have them, you’ll have a house that will have them, and the house next door might not get them at all. Really is the luck of the draw. Good move on getting black lights. Check bedding before bed with the lights off, shoes (clapping them together with the heels facing the floor will oust any that may be in there), hung up clothes, and folded towels. Those are their main hiding spots. Scorpions don’t seek out people to sting, so it’s usually cases of getting stepped on, sat on etc. Hope that’s the last you guys have to deal with them. I removed over 200 from a wash by my sister’s old house a few years back. She didn’t have any problems after that.

@@ReganOutdoors she’s fine thank you. Just some mild irritation and discomfort for about 8 hours. It’s more me that’s paranoid now. Coming from a Southern California beach community the most I had to worry about was getting stung by high taxes.

Oh no that sucks! It depends where you live for example our first house had none whatsoever in years but another house just a few streets down had them. You could seal your home so that they can't enter and spray cricket poison inside your house so they only hunt outdoors.

@@dangerouswildlife3184 good advice. Thanks!

@@imsooffended6860 hi. It's been awhile but I wonder if you brought your daughter to the hospital or just staying at home until her recovery. I found some scorpions in my backyard, really concern about the stinging by them.

That’s a whole lot of scorpions!

They sure do, which is why I never kill them.

I kill all of them in my backyard. I care more about my dogs (which are very cute and very dumb) than a pest. It is their land but they just got to go!