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Smeringurus mesaensis - Dune scorpion
I was doing some filming and playing at my local petstore when it came up that my filmographer and one of the petstore buddies i was talking to not only had not seen a scorpion flouresce but had never even heard of it! Well i had to run out to my car and get my handy dandy ultraviolet and show that that particular bit of scorpion magic. We shined and played a number of different species, including the S. mesaensis. The mesa glowed a very vibrant green and i just couldn't resist playing with it a little bit. I wanted to play house but it wanted to play tag! The scorpion was 3-3.5""BL" and in apparently good health.

The scorpion stung me on the fingertip of my right first finger. I could have avoided the sting if i didn't play with teh scorpion =P

+0 minutes: The initial pain came from the aculeus piercing the tip of my finger.
+0.083minutes: Venom pain of an acute nature followed quite quickly (within maybe ~5 seconds) and was a .2/5 (slightly worse than a good paper cut).
+15 minutes: The venom pain ramped up to .3/5 (a good cardboard papercut, almost a lit matchhead, but in this case less acute) as it grew less acute and seemed to spread to my whole finger over about 15 minutes time.
+30 minutes: Within about a half hour i noticed that my finger definitely was starting to swell.
+36 hours: my finger is still swollen and a little movement impaired, therefrom
+48-72 hours: full recovery as far as i could tell and can remember

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