Blue Scorpion Facts & Information

What Orkin Does

Your local Orkin Pro is trained to help manage blue scorpions and similar pests. Since every building or home is different, your Orkin Pro will design a unique treatment program for your situation.

Orkin can provide the right solution to keep blue scorpions in their place...out of your home, or business.

Geographical Range

The scorpion species Centruroides gracilis is known in Cuba as "alacran azul," or "blue scorpion" in English. Elsewhere, the blue scorpion is also known as the slender brown scorpion, the Florida bark scorpion or the brown bark scorpion.

In North America they are found in the U.S. and Mexico, and in South America they are found in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. In Africa they exist in Cameroon and Gabon. The species hardly exists in Europe.

Habitat & Pets

In the U.S., many blue scorpions were introduced as pets. In natural habitats, blue scorpions dwell under bark and stones in forests set with plenty of refuge, like dead or fallen timber. They can also survive in temperate to hot locations that have an average temperature of about 30 degrees Celsius -- so long as the area isn't too humid.

Pet owners often enjoy the fact that blue scorpions don't show signs of cannibalistic behavior. These scorpions can be kept together with other species of scorpions, so long as food and shelter are well provided.

Misidentification

Blue scorpions should not be mistaken for a species called the giant blue scorpion, another name for the Malaysian forest scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer). The latter is a relatively aggressive scorpion that can be often confused with the emperor scorpion.