6 pp. / Originally published: 2001 / Scorpions have long been of interest to humans primarily because of their ability to give painful and sometimes life threatening stings. Scorpions are also an important and beneficial component of many ecosystems and they are one of the oldest known terrestrial arthropods. Fossil scorpions found in Paleozoic strata 430 million years old appear very similar to present day species.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/146712
Date06 1900
CreatorsGouge, Dawn, Olson, Carl
ContributorsEntomology
PublisherCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Pamphlet
RelationUniversity of Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication AZ1223, Urban Pest Series No

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