Earwig pinched me!

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Mr.Mantid

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I had a earwig scorpion pinch me today and it freaked me out :eek: . Ever since then, i keep thinking there are bugs crawling in my peripheral vision. :eek:

 
What is an earwig scorpion? Earwigs freak me out when they try to pinch! I found the biggest one I have ever seen a week ago, it was an inch long! My daughter fell in love with it, but it died. She was disappionted. My kid is a nut, she has been stung by bees and wasps, and still loves them and rescues them from the birdbath and other standing water, by hand! Please post a pic.

 
What is an earwig scorpion? Earwigs freak me out when they try to pinch! I found the biggest one I have ever seen a week ago, it was an inch long! My daughter fell in love with it, but it died. She was disappionted. My kid is a nut, she has been stung by bees and wasps, and still loves them and rescues them from the birdbath and other standing water, by hand! Please post a pic.
Your daughter reminds me of me when i was a kid. :) I used to do save various insects from drowing in my pool. I must have been stung a hundred times! :lol: I still get stung now and again! I just don't learn. :rolleyes: :lol:

 
What is an earwig scorpion? Earwigs freak me out when they try to pinch! I found the biggest one I have ever seen a week ago, it was an inch long! My daughter fell in love with it, but it died. She was disappionted. My kid is a nut, she has been stung by bees and wasps, and still loves them and rescues them from the birdbath and other standing water, by hand! Please post a pic.
Yeesh, it was an earwig scorpion.

 
I tried feeding it to one of my mantises but the pincer part pinched them too.

 
Their pinch isn't that bad (to me at least) when their pincers are at max growth. I noticed that their pinch is actually stronger (skin breaking) when their pincers are half grown or less. And yes, I feed them to my mantids too...but only after I break off one or both of those pincers (blinded one of my mantids once).

 
What the heck is an earwig scorpion?
It's pretty much like your regular dragon scorpion except that it doesn't breathe fire and it has twice as many ears.
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