Richard Detrich’s Boquete, Panama Weblog

Well, not quite . . . but it was interesting!

Yes, we do have all kinds of critters and stuff . . . and sometimes they appear inside the house, like this scorpion and spider my daughter captured in a life and death struggle on the floor of our laundry room. Now, like everywhere else, we have an exterminator who sprays every other month, so most of these critters never come inside, but these guys did.

The spider . . . my wife loves finding these, especially when she’s taking a shower and one decides to share the shower with her . . . is about the size of a US Passport.

Our scorpions aren’t deadly like some in the US southwest, but they do hurt! I know from my personal encounter with a scorpion . . . actually a dead scorpion . . . that was in the bottom of my spa. I sat down and “pow”! Since the stinger is primed, even a dead scorpion will sting. My butt ached for about 4 hours so now I look before I sit . . . and am careful to shake out shoes and pants. We have a neighbor who learned about shaking out his pants the hard way. He pulled on his pants one morning to discover a scorpion had snuck into his zipper track . . . ouch!!!!

Anyway, who won this battle? The scorpion, of course!