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	Gordon's Thelyphonida (Whip Scorpions) Page
		Whip Scorpions look like their cousins the Scorpions, except that they have a long slender tail, it is this 'caudal appendage' which gives the group its name.
		Whip Scorpions are much larger than the similar looking Palpigradi, ranging in size from 25 to 70mm in length, Unlike the more common arachnids Whip Scorpions have no poison glands and their chelicerae are not chelate (i.e.
		Whip Scorpions are purely nocturnal hunters feeding mostly on insects such as cockroaches and grasshoppers, though they also eat worms and slugs.
	www.earthlife.net /chelicerata/whipscop.html (756 words)

	Uropygid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A uropygid, commonly known as a "whip scorpion", "vinegarone", or "vinegaroon", is an invertebrate animal belonging to the order Uropygi in the class Arachnida, in the subphylum Chelicerata of the phylum Arthropoda.
		Whip scorpions have no poison glands, but they do have glands near the rear of their abdomen that can spray a combination of formic and acetic acid when they are bothered.
		Whip scorpions are carnivorous, nocturnal hunters feeding mostly on other insects but sometimes on worms and slugs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uropygid (403 words)

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		Whip scorpions have no poison glands, but they do have glands near the rear of their abdomen that can spray a combination of acetic acid and octanoic acid when they are bothered.
		Whip scorpions are carnivorous, nocturnal hunters feeding mostly on insects but sometimes on worms and slugs.
		A new Upper Carboniferous whip scorpion (Arachnida: Uropygi: Thelyphonida) with a revision of the British Carboniferous Uropygi.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=whip_scorpion (742 words)

	Scorpions
		Scorpions are venomous arthropods that belong to the class Arachnida and are considered relatives of the spiders, mites, and ticks.
		Scorpions are the oldest arachnids for which fossils are known, and they were the first arachnid fossils to be found in Paleozoic strata.
		Scorpions are easily distinguished from other arachnids by their large, well developed claws (pedipalps) and distinct division of the abdomen (opisthosoma) into a broad preabdomen (mesosoma) seven segments long and narrow, tail-like postabdomen (metasoma) five segments long.
	fig.cox.miami.edu /hon161/scorpion (1114 words)

	The Scorpion Files - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
		Scorpions are occationally found outside their natural areas, but these are introductions resulting from scorpions traveling as stowaways in luggage, transports of merchandises etc.
		Scorpions can be found in all kinds of habitats, ranging from dry deserts to rainforests, beaches to mountaintops, isolated, rural areas to utban populations in major cities living in cracks and crevices of the walls of houses.
		The largest scorpions of the world are usually quite harmless for humans and use their pincers as defense in stead for the stinger (and venom).
	www.ub.ntnu.no /scorpion-files/faq.php (708 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arachnida
		They are chiefly terrestrial arthropods, some 65,000 to 73,000 species including the spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, ticks, and mites.
		Uropygi - whip scorpions, with first legs modified as whip-like sensory organs and with a long thin tail at end of abdomen (60 species)
		The Arachnida also includes a diverse array of smaller groups, including scorpions (1200 species), whip scorpions (100 species), palpigrades (60 species), pseudoscorpions (2000 species), solpugids (900 species), and harvestmen (5000 species).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arachnida (407 words)

	* Whip - (Gardening): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whip, or as it is sometimes called tongue grafting, is the most generally adopted in nurseries for propagating fruittrees.
		In whip and tongue grafting, fruit tree scions are grafted in the dormant season on rootstock whips of similar diameter that have been growing at least one season...
		The whip and tongue graft is very useful for adding new varieties or pollinators to established trees, as well as grafting one or two year old seedlings with named fruiting varieties...
	www.mimihu.com /gardening/whip.html (599 words)

	The Tarantula's Burrow - Whip Scorpions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whip scorpions are actually closely related to spiders, although you'd hardly think so to look at them.
		Whereas the first pair of walking legs in spiders are, well, leg-like, in whip scorpions they are long and thin and actually work more like insects' antennae, being used to probe the area ahead of the animal and search for prey by touch.
		Whip scorpions are therefore rather primitive animals and could be classed as 'living fossils', having changed little since they first appeared over 300 million years ago.
	cluestick.me.uk /burrow/whipscorpions.htm (648 words)

	Tailless whip scorpions: Amblypigids
		Tailless whip scorpions (often called whip spiders), are scientifically referred to as amblypigids because they belong to the order Amblypigi.
		They have been given the name tailless whip scorpions because of their lack of a tail (telson).
		Part of the reason whip spiders have so many myths surrounding them is that European and North American writers lacked first-hand experiences with amblypygids, which are not found in temperate zones.
	www.thewildclassroom.com /biomes/speciesprofile/species/amblypigid.html (744 words)

	WHIP SCORPION
		The Whip Scorpion is an arachnid (arthropods with 8 legs and 2 body parts) and a cousin to the scorpion and spider.
		The whip scorpion’s other common name is vinegaroon because it can spray acetic acid which makes everything around it smell like vinegar.
		Whip scorpions are native to the Southwest in damp areas of the desert.
	www.creepycrawlyzoo.com /whip_scorpion.htm (106 words)

	Southern New Mexico Travel and Tourism Information: Vinegarones
		Whip scorpions, or vinegarones, are related to both spiders and scorpions.
		Instead of a scorpion's graceful upcurved abdomen ending in that venom-injecting stinger, whip scorpions' flattened, oval abdomen hugs the earth, ending in a tiny collar from which protrudes a several-inch-long, slender, whip-like tail.
		When disturbed, whip scorpions defend themselves by spraying a vinegar-scented acid from a gland at the base of their tail whip - hence vinegarone, their other common name.
	www.southernnewmexico.com /Articles/Wildlife/VinegaronesWildLives.html (490 words)

	Arachnida (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Scorpions are commonly found in the desert, mountains and wadis as well as around human dwellings.
		These scorpions are commonly found in desert areas with some ground cover as well as being found near areas of urban settlement.
		Scorpions give birth to live young that are then carried around on the mother's back until after the first moult.
	www.shjbreeding.gov.ae /shjbreeding/arachnida.htm (463 words)

	Thelyphonus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whip scorpions are large and robust, in contrast with the small, delicate schizomidans.
		Whip scorpions are absent from Australia and Europe.
		Whip scorpions are nocturnal predators that prey on other arthropods.
	www.lander.edu /rsfox/310ThelyphonusLab.html (3381 words)

	Whip scorpion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are three orders of whip scorpions in the class Arachnida:
		Palpigradi - micro whip scorpions (less than 3mm)
		In addition, members of the Schizomida also also sometimes called "micro whip scorpions".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whip_scorpion (58 words)

	Vinegaroons (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All whip scorpions do not have venom, so Giant Vinegaroons are harmless when it comes to toxicity.
		Whip scorpions are docile, passive, easily controlled, and rarely squirt acid.
		The acid is capable of eating through the invertebrate exoskeleton, giving the whip scorpion an opportunity to escape or capture a meal.
	www.cometpest.netfirms.com /vinegaroons.htm (526 words)

	Urban Entomology [Ebeling Chap. 4] Classes of Arthropod Pests of the Urban Community (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whereas the body of an insect is divided into 3 parts--head, thorax, and abdomen--as has just been noted, the body of the spider is divided into 2 parts, the head and thorax being intimately fused into a cephalothorax and the abdomen being usually soft, rounded, and unsegmented (figure 35).
		However, the abdomen is segmented, and consists of a large, anterior preabdomen or mesosoma of 7 segments and a long, narrow, tail-like posterior postabdomen or metasoma of 6 segments, terminating in a vesicle or telson bearing a venomous stinger.
		The whip scorpion probably does not have a protective epicuticular wax layer, such as that possessed by insects and many other arthropods, to protect it from desiccation.
	www.entomology.ucr.edu /ebeling/ebeling4.html (19289 words)

	tailless whip scorpion -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Tailless whip scorpions are somewhat like whip scorpions but lack a telson, or tail.
		Among the scorpions the abdomen is subdivided into the mesosoma, or preabdomen, and the metasoma, or postabdomen, which is mobile and more slender.
		It is a relative of the spider, tick, mite, and king crab.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9070970?tocId=9070970 (674 words)

	Whip scorpions
		The Vinegarroon (also spelled Vinegaroon), Mastigoproctus giganteus, is a type of Whip Scorpion, an arachnid that emits a vinegar-like mist (containing mostly acetic acid).
		The long, whip-like tail is used as a sensory organ and does not have a stinger (unlike true scorpions, which have a stinger at the tip of the segmented tail).
		Whip Scorpions range in size from 25 to 70mm in length,
	www.thaibugs.com /Articles/whip%20scorpion%20facts.html (333 words)

	Uropygid -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name "uropygid" means "tail rump", referring to the whip-like (Click link for more info and facts about telson) telson on the end of the (Click link for more info and facts about pygidium) pygidium, a small plate made up of the last three segments of the abdominal exoskeleton.
		Like the related orders (Click link for more info and facts about Schizomid) Schizomida, (Click link for more info and facts about Amblypygi) Amblypygi, and (Click link for more info and facts about Solpugida) Solpugida, the uropygids use only six legs for walking, having modified their first two legs to serve as antennae-like sensory organs.
		They have one pair of eyes at the front of the (Click link for more info and facts about cephalothorax) cephalothorax and three on each side of the head.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/ur/uropygid.htm (427 words)

	Easy Insects - the home of exotic insect information for Scorpions, Tarantulas and more - Scorpions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Scorpions are fascinating, ancient creatures which, regardless of their country of origin all share the same morphology (look the same) with the now famous curled up stinging tail and large front claws.
		Scorpions are often referred to as insects, this is not actually the case.
		Scorpions will molt as they develop in to adults, the time between each molting is known as an instar and typically there are 5 or 6 depending on species and whether male or female.
	www.easyinsects.co.uk /site/content/view/16/33 (1681 words)

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		If an insect, a spider, a scorpion, a centipede, or a lobster be examined, the body will be found to be composed of a series of more or less similar rings or segments joined together; and some of these segments will be found to bear jointed legs (Fig.
		Scorpions breathe by means of lung sacs, of which there are four pairs, opening on the lower side of the third to the sixth abdominal segments.
		10) are small Arachnida, which resemble scorpions in the form of their body, except that the hinder part of the abdomen is not narrow, as is the post-abdomen of scorpions, and they have no caudal poison-sting.
	bcrc.bio.umass.edu /kunkel/comstock/www/comstock_chap_ii.html (8619 words)

	What's That Bug: Scorpions, Whipscorpions and Vinegaroons
		This is a Vinegaroon, a non-poisonous relative of the scorpions.
		I came for the ID of a scorpion that had stung me in my home (by the way, its sting was painful at first, but the swelling and itching got worse for about a week and then got better for about another week).
		Scorpions are found in both the South and the West, so you are in the common range.
	www.whatsthatbug.com /scorps.html (6702 words)

	Whip Scorpion
		The whip scorpions have a life pattern similar to the true scorpions, but they do not possess a poisonous sting.
		Although whip scorpions are not poisonous, some species defend themselves by squirting an acrid fluid from defence glands situated at the base of the tail.
		The group as a whole is largely confined to the tropics and sub-tropics, but nevertheless widely distributed with representatives found in China, Japan, India and other parts of Southern Asia, the greater part of Africa, and in Central and South America.
	www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk /whipscorp.htm (292 words)

	Invertebrates of the Wet Tropics - Arachnids - Mites, Ticks, Scorpions and Amblypygids
		Well known the world over are the scorpions, particularly those of the desert, but there are tropical species as well.
		Scorpions have been on the planet longer than any other arthropod having first appeared in the Silurian period, over 400 million years ago.
		They are the largest of the arachnids reaching up to 9 cm (3 ½ inches) long and are distinctive for their elongated, segmented abdomen which ends in a barbed tail.
	www.wettropics.gov.au /pa/pa_arachnids.html (617 words)

	Discovery Channel :: Learn to Survive
		Fatalities from scorpion stings are rare but they can occur in children, the elderly and ill persons.
		Scorpions resemble small lobsters with raised, jointed tails bearing a stinger in the tip.
		These are harmless and have a tail like a wire or whip, rather than the jointed tail and stinger of true scorpions.
	dsc.discovery.com /convergence/survival/guide/plantsanimals/animals/animals_02.html (1003 words)

	Wilderness Survival: Dangerous Animals - Insects and Arachnids
		Fatalities from scorpion stings are rare, but they can occur in children, the elderly, and ill persons.
		Scorpions resemble small lobsters with raised, jointed tails bearing a stinger in the tip.
		These are harmless and have a tail like a wire or whip, rather than the jointed tail and stinger of true scorpions.
	www.wilderness-survival.net /danger-1.php (1202 words)

	False Scorpions
		False Scorpions, also called Pseudoscorpions, are small arachnids (rarely more than 3-4 mm long), related to the true scorpions, spiders and mites.
		They resemble scorpions in having the terminal segments of the palps modified into relatively large pincers for catching prey, but they lack the stinging tail of true scorpions and are completely harmless.
		Little is known of their mode of life, but most species live outside under stones, under loose tree bark, and in leaf litter, moss and other debris (the species of Chelifer shown top left is a typical example), but a few, such as Chiridium (shown bottom left), habitually live in houses and other buildings.
	www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk /fscorp.htm (466 words)

	whip scorpion -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		They look like true scorpions, but the larger species have a whiplike telson, or tail—an organ of touch, devoid of a stinger.
		The second pair of appendages, the pedipalps, are spiny pincers; the third pair are long feelers.
		Scorpius (Latin for “scorpion”) is visible in the Southern Hemisphere and up to the mid-latitudes of the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9076771?tocId=9076771 (722 words)

	Camels, Scorpions and Snakes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The desert scorpion is a curious animal that usually has a deadly stinger.
		The scorpion is from the same family as the spider.
		Scorpions with stingers are known as "true scorpions" and those without are known as "whip scorpions".
	www.website1.com /odyssey/week3/fyid.html (291 words)

	Scorpions \| 4 Differences from other arthropods
		At a first superficial glance, Uropygi, Amblypygi, solifugids or pseudoscorpions can be mistaken for scorpions.
		Adult scorpions cannot be confused with Schizomyda or with Palpigrada, since these last two animal groups only include small species (3 mm).
		Pseudoscorpions are rarely longer than 8 mm, and have neither a long abdomen nor a sting.
	www.itg.be /itg/DistanceLearning/LectureNotesVandenEndenE/43_Scorpionsp4.htm (165 words)

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