Scorpion Surprise

Hmm, two consecutive bug posts. Honestly, Cancun is not full of bugs and creepy crawlies but this is the tropics after all. We’ve lived here over two years now and seen one scorpion before, at someone elses house. Today was the first time we found one at our house. Jannet was collecting in a pile of laundry from outside the house on the patio where our washing machine is. The clothes had been sitting in the washbasket for several hours.As she sorted through the clothes it ran up her arm, fell off and into the pile of clothes, where it quickly buried itself.

The only other time I’ve seen a scorpion it was a black one, this one was brown and a little larger than my previous encounter.  Cowardice got the better of me and I used a stick to sort through the clothes one at a time until I found him and took a couple of pics. I really don’t like to kill things but in his case I made an exception. I think I’m going to pickle him.