The Yae Mountain Scorpion (Latin name: Liocheles australasiae) is distributed in Southeast Asia, and its habitat is ventilated and humid. So what are its specific habits and how to take care of it?

Yaeyama Scorpion

Habits of Yae Mountain Scorpion

Yae Mountain Scorpion's habitat is ventilated and humid, and they like to hide under rotten bark or dig up rotten wood , The Yaeshan scorpion that lives in a hole in Japan has signs of hibernation, while the one distributed in Taiwan and Hong Kong does not. One of the three known hermaphroditic scorpions in the world, which reproduces on its own without having to mate with other scorpions. Timid, easily nervous, will roll over and play dead. Yaeyama scorpion is a special kind of scorpion. It is not only a small scorpion, it is almost non-toxic, and it may even have gradually lost the ability to use its tail sting.

Physical characteristics 3~4cm

Food likes to eat small crickets, spiders, caterpillars, and beetle larvae hiding in dead wood. Carcass of a large insect.

Yae Mountain Scorpion Care

Suitable temperature: 25~30 degrees; suitable humidity: 60~85%. Most scorpions cannot be kept together with more than two, otherwise they will kill each other, and the Yaeshan scorpion is no exception. After preparing a rearing box, the bottom layer is covered with soil at a height of five to seven centimeters. (You can use commercially available culture soil, sterile soil, or dug back from the wild and filled with humus.) Then prepare a small water basin. (Yaeyama scorpions usually don't drink water directly, unless the soil is dry without watering for too long.) The main function of the water basin is to maintain the humidity of the breeding environment. Prepare dead or dead wood: If you don't have it, you can first soak the existing dry hard wood (the wood must have cracked bark) in water for about five days. The choice of dead wood depends on whether there are enough cracks on it for Yaeyama Scorpion to hide. After the dead wood is ready, take it to the breeding box, bury one-third or one-half of it in the soil, and expose the part of the soil surface, preferably the part with more cracks, so that it can find a habitat. Next, spray water on the soil surface and dead wood every two to three days to maintain the humidity of the breeding environment.