Stowaway scorpion makes its way from Kenya to Ireland in woman’s bag

An Irish lady who not too long ago traveled to Kenya found an disagreeable shock practically two weeks after she returned dwelling — a scorpion had made the journey of over 4,000 miles in her baggage. 

James Hennessey, from Eire’s Nationwide Reptile Zoo, stated in a radio look on Eire’s RTÉ Radio One which the lady and her household referred to as the zoo for assist as soon as they realized that they had the venomous visitor. 

“The particular person got here again from Kenya two weeks in the past, and so they had been of their bed room and so they’d performed what all of us do, they left their bag within the nook, unpacked the stuff and did not trouble with the bag and determined to go take a look on the bag and transfer it, lifted it up and one thing moved on the ground beneath it, and there was this little tiny scorpion sitting there within the bed room, within the, I feel it was the shag pile sort rug,” Hennessey defined. 

Hennessey stated that the bag had been within the nook for 12 days earlier than the stowaway was noticed. 

The household “freaked out at first,” Hennessey stated, permitting the scorpion to “do a legger” and get away. It disappeared beneath a mattress, Hennessey stated. That is when the household referred to as him. 

“They referred to as us then immediately, stated we discovered a scorpion beneath the bag and now we do not know the place it’s. I feel they sort of pulled the home aside, they placed on huge heavy gloves, the entire household bought concerned, pulled the home aside and located it I feel beneath the mattress and managed to get it into a little bit Tupperware container,” Hennessey stated. 

The zoo has recognized the creature as a Fisher’s Fats Tailed Scorpion. Hennessey wrote on social media that the arachnid is now “secure and sound (and really safe!)” within the zoo’s venomous unit. 

He advised RTÉ’s Morning Eire that such a discover is “commonplace.”  

“It is not frequent, however it’s commonplace,” Hennessey stated. “It tends to be principally geckos and we do get fairly a number of scorpions. Very often some frogs and generally some snakes.”