What are the living habits of wild scorpions?

Scolopes, spiders and scorpions are the larger pets of small reptiles, and different people have different purposes of keeping scorpions. Some people may have certain medicinal value, and some people may really like such pets. Knowing their habits is also helpful for our reproduction.

First, the physiological habits of scorpions:

1. Scorpions are animals that lie down during the day and come out at night. Although they like tides, too wet places are not good for their growth. They like darkness and are afraid of strong light stimulation. Like to live in groups, like to be quiet, and have the habit of identifying nests and groups. Most scorpions live together in fixed nests. Generally, in a large group of scorpion nests, most of them are female, male, big and small, live in harmony and rarely hurt each other. But if they are not the same scorpion, they often kill each other after meeting.

2. Scorpions have the habit of hibernating, which usually comes out in the middle and late April, that is, after being frightened, and begins to hibernate slowly in165438+1early October. The annual activity time is about 6 months. During the day, scorpions usually come out from 8 pm to 1 1 after sunset and return to their nests at 2 ~ 3 am the next day. This activity pattern is generally in warm, windless and dry nights, and rarely occurs in windy weather.

Although scorpions are warm animals, they are cold-resistant and heat-resistant. The temperature of the external environment is 40℃ to MINUS 5℃, and scorpions can survive. The growth, development and reproduction of scorpions are closely related to temperature. When the temperature is below 10℃, scorpions are not very active. When the temperature is below 20℃, scorpions are not very active. The optimum temperature for their growth and development is between 25℃ and 39℃. When the temperature is 35 ~ 39℃, scorpions are the most active, and their growth and development are accelerated, and most of them mate in this temperature range. When the temperature exceeds 4 1℃, the water in the scorpion is evaporated. If the temperature is not lowered in time and the water is not replenished in time, scorpions will easily dehydrate and die. When the temperature exceeds 43℃, scorpions die quickly. The activity, growth and reproduction of scorpions are closely related to temperature, and the optimum temperature is between 35 and 38℃. Therefore, we must pay attention when we breed scorpions artificially.

Scorpions don't like raw food.

Scorpions have a strong aversion to all kinds of strong smells, such as paint, gasoline, asphalt, chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, quicklime and so on. The stimulation of these substances is very unfavorable to scorpions, even fatal. Scorpions are also very sensitive to all kinds of strong vibrations and sounds, sometimes scaring them away and stopping eating, mating and giving birth.

Second, the eating habits of scorpions:

Scorpions are carnivores, feeding on various arthropods, such as insects and terrestrial mollusks, especially soft and juicy small animals rich in protein. I like to eat all kinds of spiders, centipedes, locusts, crickets (details), ground beetles, slugs, Tenebrio molitor, rice moths and corn borers. Tenebrio molitor is an ideal bait under artificial feeding conditions. Fresh meat, such as pork, beef, fish, frog meat and other scorpions also like to eat, but do not eat cooked food. Scorpions kill each other because of lack of food, water, dryness or high density.

Third, reproductive habits:

Scorpion is a hermaphrodite, sexually mature female scorpion, which is in estrus twice a year. Once in May-June, once after the mother gave birth to the young scorpion, the young scorpion quickly left the back of the mother scorpion and entered estrus after August. After the female scorpion is in estrus, the male scorpion must be caught and released immediately for mating. In a nest of scorpions, the ratio of male to female is generally 3: 1.