large-clawed scorpion encountered in mount heremon Lebanon
Preserved specimen ~10 cm long, caught in Iraq in the 1980s.
My Bedouin guide says they have two scorpions, and this one is referred to as “Ulu” (my phonetic translation, oo-loo) and that the sting is to be feared. In my previous observation I observed the other scorpion, the black one, also described by my guide, but he did not provide a name for it.
תצלום של רונה סיטניק שלא עלה בזמן אמת לאפליקציה...