Scientific Name:  Vaejovis spinigerus
Order:  Scorpiones
Family:  Vaejovidae
Diet:  Small arthropods and insects.
Vegetation Association:  They can be found under rocks during the day.

Predators:  Elf Owls, lizards, snakes, grasshopper mice, desert shrews, and pallid bats prey upon scorpions. 
Life Stages:  They give birth to live young throughout the summer.  They are not fully developed when they are born and will continue to develop for 7-21 days until their exoskeleton first molts.  Babies will crawl up their mother and hold onto her back.  If they fall off their mother may eat them.
Notes:  There are 36 scorpion species native to Arizona and the Sonoran Desert.  They glow in the dark when seen under black light.  This is Arizona?s most common scorpion species. 
Photo:  To be added.

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