Thanks for the comment. Sorry to hear you lost your pink ruffled bed skirt. But glad you didn’t loose something more valuable, like your life.

I spent the first 15 years of my life in southern New Mexico. My family lived on the edge of the desert near I-10, in a little house my father built for us. We all noticed that scorpions seemed to be nocturnal critters. My brothers and I were fortunate. We never get stung by a scorpion, although there were dozens of times we found them inside or near the outside of the house. Probably were lots more, we just never saw those ones!

The article here is very good advice. My parents did EXACTLY as described:

place mason jars…under your child bed’s footings… move the beds 6 to 8 inches away from the walls. Scorpions can climb walls and will often fall from the wall onto bed or from the ceiling onto the bed. Check your shoes!

So true! Shake out slippers at night and outdoor shoes in the morning. I’d add only one thing: as mentioned, scorpions CAN climb walls. That means that parents (or better, kids!) must make their beds every day, at least keep those sheets and blankets off the floor!

I remember raising a fuss cause I didn’t have a dust ruffle flounce hanging off my bed. A relative from another state gave me a beautiful pink ruffled bed skirt. It stayed on for less than a month. I’ll never forget how fast my mother ripped it off the night she turned back my sheets and found 3 scorpions lying in my bed and another climbing up that pink bedskirt that was just long enough to graze the floor.

Thank you for your videos. You will save lives by keeping the public informed.

The summer prior I found another big roach crawling out of my kitchen sink. That was less traumatic. I managed to puncture his carapace with a wooden chopstick on the counter, and shoved him (and the chopstick!) down into the garbage disposal.

The BF insisted there was no way roaches could get in the plumbing of our 50 year old brick apartment home. But I’d noticed that both of my sinks had similar positions to the floor plan in your youtube video, and I feel so vindicated! Two roaches is hardly an infestation, but I feel a lot better now that I’m fairly sure how they are getting inside!

Thank you for a great video.