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== Life Cycle == | == Life Cycle == | ||
The life cycle of a Fattail scorpion is quite common. This scorpion, like most others, reproduces sexually. The Androctonus genus has both male and female genders, so that makes it a little less complicated. The male finds the female, and after some pre-mating rituals, they begin to mate. First, however, the male leads the female to a suitable place to lay his spermataphore. The female then moves over this, allowing it to enter her, releasing the sperm, fertilizing the female. The male then quickly retreats to avoid being eaten by the female. The female later gives birth to scorplings. Scorplings(baby scorpions) are born one by one. The litters average around eight, but can vary from two all the way up to 100. | The life cycle of a Fattail scorpion is quite common. This scorpion, like most others, reproduces sexually. The Androctonus genus has both male and female genders, so that makes it a little less complicated. The male finds the female, and after some pre-mating rituals, they begin to mate. First, however, the male leads the female to a suitable place to lay his spermataphore. The female then moves over this, allowing it to enter her, releasing the sperm, fertilizing the female. The male then quickly retreats to avoid being eaten by the female. The female later gives birth to scorplings. Scorplings(baby scorpions) are born one by one. The litters average around eight, but can vary from two all the way up to 100. | ||
The life cycle of this scorpion, once born, can span from four years all the way to twenty-five years. Once the scorpling is born, it stays on its mother's back until it finally molts. A scorpling cannot survive before its first molt without its mother, because it's in a fragile state and depends on the mother for regulating its moisture levels. Then the young scorpion continues to mot in order to continue growing. To grow, the scorpion molts periodically. Once the scorpion molts, it is very vulnerable because of its fragile exoskeleton, but that grows back. As that is growing back, the scorpion has to stretch in order to make sure it can move once it is in the final molt. After about five to seven molts, the scorpion is considered to have reached maturity. New exoskeletons are not fluorescent, but the florescence comes back as does the exoskeleton(scorpions with complete exoskeletons are fluorescent under a blacklight). | |||
== Ecology == | == Ecology == | ||
