Stings from Babycurus Genus

Subject: Stings from Babycurus Genus Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:17 am

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Specie: Babycurus Jacksoni

Report by: senor ocho

This sting occurred during routine care and maitenance at approx 10:12 PM about five months ago. I was feeding my baby Babycurus jacksoni (Rusty Thick-Tail) and all was going well. There was one individual who was rather slow to eat. Since these scorps commonly play possum, I decided to nudge the food over to it. Lightning quick the lil bugger slammed me on the tip of my right index finger. He was only an inch and a half in length, but he punctured the skin. For my trouble, the (censored) cricket hopped out and on to freedom. The pain came hard and fast. An intense throbbing more than burning, with intermittent tingling and paralysis in the finger from the tip to the knuckle. I immediately opened the bottle of Glenfiddich (good stuff for those who enjoy Scotch) and went to work not only self-medicating, but feeding and cleaning the rest of the lot. The booze didn't do much for the pain, but the rest of me was doing okay! The pain was more annoying than anything, but it lasted for 18 hours, not bad for such a little guy! I still work with Babycurus jacksoni in the same manner, just with a ton more admiration.
Chris

Report by: G. Carnell

Sting happened after the male had mated, and (censored) as i was in a rush, i tryed to make him back away onto a piece of bark (for moving into another box) with my index finger, he reared up and *thwacked* me right by the nail

pain was very intense, though it was less painful than Hetetomerus spinifer

the pain lasted overnight, a throbing electrical pain as others have termed it,
in the few minutes following the sting, the pain spread up my vein, but only 2-3cm around my vein

then my heart started to hurt a bit, but im not sure whether i was imagining this
i felt slightly feint but didnt generally feel in danger of my life

when i woke up the next day my finger was very sensitive, and was tingling for the remainder of the day (especially when i touch things or type)

one good thing came out of this! my female is pregnant!!

Report by: finman31

This just happened 30 minutes ago and was during removing pieces of crickets,and WHAM! he shot out from his hiding hole under some bark and flat nailed me with lightning speed on the back of my index finger.He drew blood but it was not really painful,other than the initial hit.I figure it was a warning shot,and was a dry sting.He is only about an inch,but this little guy has an attitude.

Report by: Selenops

Happened about a month ago.

I was tagged by an adult B jacksoni, right above the cuticle of my fingernail on my left index finger. Instant intense but very brief pain similar to a bad C vittatus sting and succeeded in swelling the last digit of my index finger and raised a "blister" (or edema?) at the site of the sting. Unfortunately I am not sure the blister was a genuine blister because it disappeared after a week.

But the rest of the day my the tip of my finger tingled pleasantly especially when I applied pressure or pinched it. No other systematics.

Not something I want to experience again but happy to report I would rather get tagged by this than say Leiurus, Buthus, Androctonus, Pterinochilus, Pokies, any Asian tarantula, or S. subspinipes any day.

Subject: Sting from Babycurus Gigas Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:20 am

Specie: Babycurus Gigas

Report by: ThomasH

10:00 +/- I was stung by a 3rd instar sling as it ran up the cardboard [I keep these utilitarian style until adult] in it's enclosure [4oz deli] and fell onto my hand below. It ran rapidly up my arm until I managed to stick my other hand in it's way. It climbed on gently, and gained speed, so I gripped it's tail this time in attempts to stop it, I was successful and I gently put it back in the enclosure, as I released it, it turned around and tagged me right on the side of my thumb. It got a (censored) good hit in. At first it was unbearable localized [5 minutes or so] pain, it slowly elevated up my arm and now my neck is cramped, but less localized pain, my forearm is burning, otherwise more numbness than anything now.

I currently keep 4 species of buthids - B. jacksoni, B. gigas, C. sculpturatus C. vittatus [sculpturatus and vittatus kept in a large interspecies communal enclosure]

I take a very hands on approach with my animals, I don't take them out solely for the purposes of handling but if I have to remove a specimen for any reasons, I don't use tongs or surfaces for them to climb on, I just pick them up. 9.9/10 times I don't get stung, but I've been stung at least once by adults representing all of the species previously mentioned. Nothing as painful as this, unless comparing the lividum bite a while back. So I don't typically write sting reports as nothing notable ever really happens. I was completely ecstatic about being stung and having an actual reaction to this because, unless I'm mistaken this is the first sting report for this species.

This probably isn't the first and I highly doubt it won't be the last time I'm stung by my own captive specimens but I'm hopin none of the other stings are ever this strong. On a 1-10 pain scale, I'd give it a six, more inconvenient than it is seriously painful.

Lucky me, just discovered another clutch of these demonic offspring yesterday, so far I've actually been very successful with propogating them.

10:40 - forearm, hand and thumb especially are still tingling and it's very painful to apply pressure at all. It's physically taxing to do typical two handed tasks, it was incredibly painful to take my jeans off today, I've been fine holding small objects and typing but I'm now beginning to appreciate the things I typically took for granted before today's incident...

TBH

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