Scorpion ID please

[Tall Paul]

Hi
Found this little bugger crawling from under my ground tent the weekend.Can someone please inform, poisonous or not? Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. The can was positively identified as a Castle Light can but not the scorpion.

Thanks

[Jens78]

Venomous, not poisonous! "If it bites/stings you and you die, it's venomous. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous". This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisto...us_glabrifrons. Nasty sting but not life-threatening, though may require medical treatment. Edit: If that small not much of a problem, but they grow huge! Since they are burrowing scorpions I don't think it's mom was far away. A HUGE one of these tickled my foot with it's pincer from underneath the groundsheet in Shingwedzi when I was a kid. Fortunately I immediately jumped almost through the roof of the tent and landed far away. My dad lifted the groundsheet and swept her away with a broom to some shrubs. She made this rasping hissing sound!

[Tall Paul]

Thanks for the reply

Near miss for me as I was folding the ground sheet when it revealed itself. Quite an aggressive little thing