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That is EXACTLY what we're looking for, Son godin. We're both into insects in a major way. Over here you haven't got that many birds to tick so the next step is ticking and photographing critters. I usually hunt for them and Duco uses his 100/400 plus the close-up lens. This time we'll have a Macro lens as well. Really looking forward to it.

Hi Guinea Pig
Hope you find or see a scorpion here in Augrabies, perhaps we can look for it while you are here. Red romans! small chance to see it but you never know!
Here is a pic of a scorpion it was take on one of my drives.

DSC00184 by closed4, on Flickr

If I look at your photo, AG and what I've been told since I asked the question here and on Facebook, that's a venomous scorpion?

Really looking forward to looking for all the small life.

Maybe worth asking too - what interesting spiders are around?

I read somewhere here that Scorpions with fat tails and little pincers are the poisonous,small tails and large pincers not so bad. Apparently they store the poison in their tails?
Perhaps KG might know?

That's the way I understood it as well, Dotty. So the photo posted by Son godin is a non-venomous, well less venomous, one and the one AG posted a venomous one, if you follow that rule.

(hoped I got it right)

@ Dotty thats the principle to use with regard to the tails and pincers

@ Guinea Pig,I have seen Baboon spiders here and the common one is daddy long legs as well as the garden spider but this specie on the far western section of the Park.

Thanks AG

Thanks AG!

It's just so difficult to find Baboon Spiders. They're not exactly camera loving critters!

We're going to have fun.

Hi Guinea Pig,

We had a scorpion in our accomodation at Kielie Krankie.
We discovered it in the evening, when it went from the bathroom under the bed
When we decided to try to catch him with a pot and put him outside, he had disappeared and we never learned where he went to. Nevertheless, we slept well
Later, at Nossob, we saw an information about scorpions at reception and there, it was also mentioned, as the others already told you, that big pincers and a small tail are less dangerous than small pincers and a bit tail.

On the terrace at Mata Mata, we saw at night a spider that might have been a small Red Roman. But I am not good at identifying spiders. We took a picture and as soon as I find it among our thousands of pictures, I could post it for ID.

Good luck.
Nina

Nina!

Hope im not hijacking the thread but here is some useful information.

You must hope for a windy evening. The scorpions appear out of nowhere if the wind starts blowing.
We were in Twee Rivieren one evening and with the wind of an approaching thunderstorm they were suddenly everywhere.

I hear they catch their normally flying prey who are then grounded because of the wind.

You're not hi-jacking it at all! Useful information indeed!

Now to wait for those windy evenings to come up....

This is going to be SO much fun!!

Be sure to get yourself a "scorpion torch" (ultra violet light). I bought mine on-line from a guy called Jonathan Leeming.

I'm sure a google search will reveal his contact details.

It makes finding scorpions a lot easier at night and my wife uses it while walking around.