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RE: BLACKLIGHT SCORPION - Unedited and Awesome!!!
Ugh... can't get used to these guys. You'd think I would, growing up in Arizona, but nope. We get at least a dozen in our house each year, plus a bunch out in the yard. Ours aren't very potent here, but down in the east part of the Phoenix valley (Apache Junction, near the Superstition Mountains), they can be pretty powerful. As far as I know, I've never been stung. I've had a couple of questionable "bites" though, so maybe...
I've seen where folks will pour sand over them then pick them up by the tail that's sticking up out of the sand. I've never seen someone do what you did though, out in the open like that. It' looked pretty relaxed until you nabbed it.
Sometimes they get kind of angry, but I've never had any issue so far picking them up like that, although I've only met about a half dozen. ;-( Hopefully I can encounter some more. That sand trick sounds smart!
Arizona has so many scorpions! I lived in Tucson for awhile and had great fun taking a portable blacklight with me when I went camping with friends. Between all the animal pee and the scorpions, folks were surprised, to say the least. It sure pointed out how there's a lot more going on out there than we realize.
Yeah, the Sonoran Desert is really quite alive. Folks don't realize how much life is out there, and how much food! If you know what you're doing, you can graze as you're hiking.
That's great that you know some of the good things to eat there in the Sonoran desert, @anotherjoe! I harvested and ate a lot of mesquite pods, prickly pear pads and fruits, and summer weeds like common mallow. But I enjoyed the palo verde beans, cholla buds, and saguaro fruits, too. And then there are all the citrus, dragonfruit, dates, jujubes, and olives in town, too! One of my favorite was young tumbleweeds - they came up thick, all at once, in my yard, so they were easy to harvest when they were about 3 inches high. They were great just sauteed in a stir fry. I am determined to get some seed on my next trip down there and try growing them for microgreens - they are that good! Enjoy your local desert -- and scorpions! : )
I've not had the saguaro fruit yet, but have heard that it's great. Never had tumbleweeds. Didn't even know about eating them, but it makes sense to get them when they're young. We have a lot of purslane in our yard. And the amaranth is supposed to be good, but wifey is allergic.
One of my favorite snacks are the fruit from the barrel cactus. I don't know that much about the food sources available though... not nearly what I should.
Your wife is the first person I've come across who is allergic to Amaranth. That's too bad. I eat it regularly during the summer and I freeze a lot of it, too, for using it anytime of the year. It's a great green. You are lucky with all that purslane and barrel cactus fruit! There is so much out there -- we can't even learn about it all in our lifetimes, let alone eat it all! It won't stop me from trying, though! You, either, it sounds like! :D
Wow, I never saw these comment that you made to @anotherjoe when this post first went out. That's a lot of great info, and I like what you're up to!