Centruroides bicolor

That's right. I got three second-instars that arrived today (one's a third-instar now; he decided to molt during unpacking).

For reference, the jars are ~3/4 of an inch across.

The fatty:



The not-so-fatty: (second pic clickable for zoom)



And the molter. 5:57 PM


6:03 PM


6:34 PM


6:50 PM


As of 7:45 PM, the last one has its body out and is flipped over, and is just working the metasoma out.

that's awesome, congrats on the new acquisitions

Raul? I ordered some too.
-Eddy

Update: 7:58 and the metasoma is out!

Nice scorps! I'm excited to see pictures once they're mature, such a gorgeous species! Congrats

Very cool Mike! I can't wait to see them as adults.

Thanks everyone! I'm really excited for a chance at breeding these guys. Aside from those connected to the order these three came from, I'm not aware of anyone in the US with this species.

Breed 'em and send some over to Malaysia haha.

welcome new arrivals! so they did turn up yesterday then *yesterday my time when I was speaking to you*

YAY! I bet you are soooo exciting and as a bonus you got to witness one moulting!
xxxxxx

nice! i hope i get to see one of my scorps moulting sometime. looks awsome and freaky!

What is the venom rating on this amazingly beautiful species?

I also have a group of them....

Well then, that's five people including myself that have these in the US that I'm aware of. I think that still qualifies as "rare" .

111, this was actually the first time I got to see a scorp in the process of molting. I just wish it was on that was a little bigger and easer to see!

Dan, there's no medical literature available (that I'm aware of) on the venom of this species. It's a Buthid, so it will likely hurt, and I believe there's some medically significant Centruroides spp. from that neck of the woods, so I'll have to take care not to get stung. But hey, if I do, that's how we learn!

And learning is half the battle!

Thaedion wrote:

IHeartMantids wrote:

... so I'll have to take care not to get stung. But hey, if I do, that's how we learn!

ManicDan wrote:

And learning is half the battle!

And what would the other half of the battle be?... staying alive?...

Luck.

So I don't know if anyone's heard, but these have been confirmed as C. margaritatus and Raul and I worked things out over the mis-ID.

But in either case, one molted to 3I today!

where did you get them?

Casparian82 wrote:

where did you get them?

Inquiring minds wanna know...lol

this post is over a year old...

Well, if you had read my last post in this thread, you would know that

A) it's not C. bicolor after all

B) I got them from Raul

C) This happened over a year ago, as pointed out by Chrome.

And all three died, anyway.

yeah i wrote before i went to page 2 my bad haha. but im gunna get my hands on a few of these pretty soon

Make sure they're genuinely C. bicolor before you shell out a lot of money for them. There's a colorform of C. margaritatus that looks remarkably like C. bicolor. You can tell them apart by the number of rows of denticles (grippy bumps) on the movable chela finger. That's how I confirmed these as the wrong species.

I forget the numbers, but I can dig up my thread on AB and look them up if you're interested.

Yeah that'd be cool. Thanks. I think I'm gunna actually travel to costa rica to get them. But I'm actually talking to a lady here that assures me she can get hold of a few for me