Brazilian yellow scorpion
The Brazilian yellow scorpion is a small scorpion that lives in Brazil, often in towns and cities. Its venom is extremely toxic, and it is the most dangerous scorpion in South America.1

Indlela yokusibona
- Adults are usually 5 to 7 cm long.1
- Legs and pedipalps are pale yellow, while the body and the tip of the tail are a darker yellowish brown.1
- The tail is bulbous and segmented, with prominent ridges and serrations, and is often carried curved forward over the back.1
- The tail ends in a venom-injecting barb.1
Amandla obuthi
Ubuthi buphuma ngodosi.
Ubuthi baso benzani?
Its venom contains an excitatory neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves that control involuntary body functions and releases adrenaline and related chemicals. Mild cases cause mainly localised pain, while more serious cases can bring fever, sweating, tremors, vomiting, agitation, a fast heartbeat and inflammation of the pancreas. Deaths can occur within 1 to 6 hours, or 12 to 14 hours, depending on age, health and the amount of venom injected.1
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: Kuyingozi kakhuluSingabulala umuntu ongatholi kwelashwa.It is responsible for more medically significant accidents than any other scorpion in Brazil, and most of the country's fatal scorpion cases. Mortality rates are 1.0 to 2.0% among children and elderly people. In a nationwide study from 2000 to 2012, Brazil recorded 482,616 scorpion accidents and 728 deaths, and this species was believed to cause most of those deaths.1
Senzani uma sesabile?
It uses its tail barb to deliver defensive strikes.1
Uma sihlaba
- Pholisa indawo ehlatshiwe ngephakethe leqhwa futhi ugcine umuntu engashukumi. Thola usizo lwezokwelapha ngokushesha, ikakhulukazi ezinganeni: amanye amafezela ayabulala ezinganeni.
Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala
Hlala uphephile
- Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
- Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Uma sikuhlaba: hlala uzolile, ungashukumi, shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911) noma uye esibhedlela ngokushesha. Khumbula ukuthi besibukeka kanjani, isithombe siyasiza.
Asikuzingeli wena. Sisebenzisa ubuthi baso ukuze sibambe ukudla noma ukuzivikela, futhi singancamela ukucasha. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
side njengezitini zamathoyizi ezingu-2 ezilandelanayo
singahamba amamitha ali-100 ngemizuzwana engu-260 (umuntu oshesha kunabo bonke udinga engu-9,6)Brazilian yellow scorpion mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?
Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.
Sishesha kangakanani?
Amaqiniso
Reported scorpion stings in Brazil rose from 12,000 in 2000 to 140,000 by 2018.1
It has a low metabolic rate, so it can survive for months without eating.1
Scorpion numbers have grown in Brazilian cities, helped by plenty of cockroaches to eat and few predators.1
Its venom varies by region. Scorpions from Distrito Federal have an LD50 of 51.6 μg/kg, compared with 26 μg/kg for those from Minas Gerais. LD50 is the dose that kills half of the animals tested.1
Its tail is bulbous and segmented, with ridges and serrations, and it often curls forward over its back.1
Lapho amaqiniso evela khona
- Tityus serrulatus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Tityus serrulatus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
- Venom Wiki: izinga lengozi, usayizi ojwayelekile nesiqagela sejubane kungokwethu. Bona ukuthi sikubala kanjani: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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