whip scorpion

For added fun, there's a "Mad Scientists Lab," located in the Educational & Horticultural Wing, where children and adults alike can check out a collection of live insects, including a tarantula, a whip scorpion, millipedes and hissing cockroaches.

This summer, they'll be joined by much smaller critters -- more than 100 arachnids, from the tiger rump tarantula to the tailless whip scorpion. The hands-on temporary exhibit "Amazing Arachnids" celebrates these eight-legged creatures with an art-themed area, as well as spaces devoted to science and culture.

Another live specimen is the tailless whip scorpion, which has featured in a Harry Potter film.

A tailless whip scorpion, A tailless whip scorpion, | |top, and a giant vinegaroon

He also has to negotiate live ordnance left over from the Vietnam War, as well as a reticulated python, a whip scorpion, a monitor lizard and a herd of buffalo.

Image Credits: Vampire squid: MBARI; Tarantula: Wikimedia Commons/CA[c]sar Guadarrama; Basking shark: Wikimedia Commons/Greg Skomal; Tailless whip scorpion: Wikimedia Commons/Notafly; Sun scorpion: Wikimedia Commons/Kedddy

Among the wide range of reptiles being sold in the shop is the Tailless Whip Scorpion - which walks like a crab and looks like a spider.

We now report that the giant whip scorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas) (Arachnida: Uropygi) consumes Floridobolus, even if the quinone-based secretion is released upon attack.

Uropygi.--Nine species of fossil whip scorpion are listed by Harvey (2003:73-74, 79-80); and one further Pennsylvanian species was overlooked.

Although the presence of terrestrial flora suggests a whip scorpion could potentially be fossilized in the Monterey shale, this locality has not yielded, for example, a rich insect fauna which would normally be much more common than arachnids.