Scorpion gives birth after travelling to Canada in Vancouver woman’s luggage
Jun 19, 2019 | 7:00 PM
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VICTORIA — A scorpion that turned up in a Vancouver resident’s home last month following a recent trip to Cuba has now given birth.
Staff at the Victoria Bug Zoo confirm in an online post that the scorpion has produced about 20 offspring, and the whole family is doing well.
The scorpion, named Gail after the woman who spotted it in her kitchen and had the courage to capture it alive, was initially identified as a potentially deadly species found in the Caribbean.
But experts at the bug zoo have determined Gail is a less venomous species known as the Cuban scorpion or Heteroctenus Garridoi.
