Scorpions in east Tn.?

[AtomicRooster]

Are scorpions a pest in east Tn.?
I've had a few in the past when I lived in Atlanta. The little brown ones. Pest control takes care of them but I'm wondering if I need to be on the lookout for them up here.

[jgradyc]

I've seen a couple in Nashville over the past 15 years, so yeah, they're here. They weren't brown. They were light colored... almost a dull yellow.

Edited April 3, 2016 by jgradyc

[LI0NSFAN]

Ok, I swear I saw one last year in my workshop. Everyone I talked with called me crazy. It was small and yellowish, I just figured I misidentified it,but I guess maybe I am not as crazy as I seem.

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[jughead]

i usually kil 3-4 every year around my place

[Sidecarist]

I'm up on the plateau near Dayton and I have them. They aren't much of a problem. The sting feels like a bee sting, not too bad. (Careful when moving rocks...)

They hunt other insects. If you keep the bugs out of the house they don't come around.

I've seen two types the pale yellowish ones, and some darker brown ones with a band of darker brown. Edited April 4, 2016 by Sidecarist

[AtomicRooster]

Here's the little perp. I hate these bastages!
I've lived in the Knoxville area for a couple of years now and haven't seen any yet. Problem is they have always found me in the past before I found them. Edited April 4, 2016 by AtomicRooster

[dawgdoc]

I'm a few miles from the TN-GA border, and I have several. They show up in the most interesting places--son's bedroom, the tub, and once in the curtains (it made real nice picture with the sunlight silhouetting its distinctive shape).

[AtomicRooster]

I'm a few miles from the TN-GA border, and I have several. They show up in the most interesting places--son's bedroom, the tub, and once in the curtains (it made real nice picture with the sunlight silhouetting its distinctive shape).

Yup....to everything you said. Guess I'm buyin' a .410 next payday....lol.

[Erik88]

Here's the little perp. I hate these bastages!
I've lived in the Knoxville area for a couple of years now and haven't seen any yet. Problem is they have always found me in the past before I found them.

 

 

My wife found one of these little guys while camping in Big South Fork a few years ago. I couldn't believe it. I had no idea we had scorpions in TN.

 

It was close to our tent so I crushed him.

[TripleGGG]

When we lived in North Georgia they were everywhere. Haven't seen any since we've been in Knoxville area for 3 years. Waking up and seeing one on the ceiling was always interesting. Good heavy application of home defense always did the trick.

[Oh Shoot]

Plenty of them here and there in just the places they like the best.

 

There was a real honey hole for them in this one area on Watts Bar Lake, used to help at a Athens school camp there in spring, was a part of the nature tour to stop and show everybody a few.

 

Haven't seen but two or three in all the years since in any other area though.

 

- OS

[10-Ring]

I saw them when I lived in Blount County. I've seen them in DeKalb County as well and been told that they are common out in the Cedar Glades in Wilson County but haven't seen them there myself.

[Murgatroy]

Seen them often enough in Monroe county to not be surprised when I found one.

[Superposed]

Live on a mountain in the woods outside of Chattanooga and we see them all the time.

[Possumslayer]

Flip over rocks... that's where i always found them I was a kid.

[jpx2rk]

Never seen one around my house but I usually don't turn over rocks and stuff either.  I thought they liked the desert environment, so they shouldn't show up until sometime in August around here.  LOL

[KahrMan]

There are actually two species of scorpions that can be found in Tennessee.  The plain eastern stripeless and the striped scorpion.  The venom of Tn scorpions are no stronger that the sting of a honey bee.

[peejman]

Live on a mountain in the woods outside of Chattanooga and we see them all the time.

 

 

Yep, my parents live there and the little scorpions are everywhere.  We I visit, I typically see a couple dozen squished on the driveway and remove a couple from light fixtures.  They got a couple pallets of paver stone a while back and there were a good 100 scorpions per pallet.  I got stung on the finger and it felt about like a bee sting.  Thankfully it didn't swell, but it itched for a few days. 

[monkeylizard]

They'll be in Nashville next month.

 

[JAB]

There was a brown one like the one in the pic posted earlier in this thread in my sister's bath tub last summer.  Also, when we were kids we used to see some tiny - I mean itty bitty - black scorpions around the front porch steps at my great grandmother's house in a rural area of Sevier County.  There would usually be a few of them seen at once.  Not sure if they were babies or just a very small species.

 

I don't recall seeing scorpions on any other occasions or locations in East Tennessee but they are definitely here.

[Possumslayer]

I got stung by one on the finger one time.... Felt like a thumb tack went in my finger, hurt pretty good at first then it swelled a little, next day I couldn't even tell anything happened.

[chances R]

Chilhowee Mountain has plenty of them.

[RED333]

Hunt them at night with a black light, mounted on a shot gun. :dirty:

[Fourtyfive]

Been here 56 years , didn't know we had them. Shocking.... Edited April 5, 2016 by Fourtyfive

[DWARREN123]

I have over the years seen them around middle Tennessee. Different colors and sizes but none over 3 inches long.