Hallo
Ich war immer auf der Suche ob Skorpione wirklich ihr Gift verspritzen können. Habe aber bis jezt noch niemand gefunden der dies bestätigen konnte.
Jezt habe ich aber eine Bericht über einen Vorfall in Afrika gefunden der dies zu bestätigen scheint.
Wollte euch dies nicht vorenthalten da einige von euch diesen Skorpi auch habt.
Bericht aus Arachnoboard.com Sting reports
Last night I was rehousing a large female P. transvaalicus. I grabbed her tail with my rubber forceps and she began squirting venom. Not flicking venom, but literally squirting in streams like a squirt gun.
A small amount was sprayed directly into my right eye.
Within 15 seconds I was in the shower, rinsing my eye for upwards of 15 minutes, and I also rinsed it in a shotglass of warm milk.
My eye hurt mildly (like having sand stuck in it) for the first few hours, with shooting pains, like a needle, every 10 minutes or so. These pains lasted only a second or two before disappearing. This continued through the night, getting a bit worse about 4-5 hours after the spraying, until I fell asleep about 9 hours after the spraying. Upon waking up this morning, my eye is fine, the soreness is hardly noticeable.
(I have never had to do an eye-wash before, perhaps that irritated my eye more than the venom???)
Pain scale of overall eye sensation last night on a scale of 1-10 was a 1 or less.
Pain scale of 'needle-like-sensation' was a 4.
Lesson learned: P. transvaalicus CAN squirt venom, not just flick it.
I am thinking this experience may have been more painful if I had not immediately done an eye-wash.