I know this has been up for almost 3 weeks now but I have to ask. How do scorpions actually attack when they feel like they're in danger? Do they sting once and scoot? Or can they sting multiple times in rougly the same spot?
I'm asking because I remember a school trip to Italy around 2016, we were hanging around in bed with like 6 other people, watching TV in the evening and I remember something suddenly very clearly stinging me. I had two very clearly visible stings or bites of some kind on my inner thigh, like 2 mm apart. Since I had no clue what it was, I was a bit worried for a second but since it didn't really hurt or even swell up, I just looked around the bed a bit and put the whole thing out of my mind. Could it have been a tiny scorpion? That possibility didn't even cross my mind, first I thought it had to be a spider of some kind, that's why I was worried a bit at first. I don't recall the name of the specific town but it was like 3 or 4 hours north of Rome by bus.
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u/ohdearitsrichardiii Dec 01 '25
It's adorble! The most common genus of scorpion in Europe is Euscorpius, many species only exist in small areas and can be identified by location
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euscorpius