A tourist got the shock of her life when she found 18 scorpions in her suitcase after returning home from a holiday in Croatia.
The woman was unpacking last Saturday after returning from the Adriatic Sea to her home in Natternbach, in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, and when she opened her suitcase , saw a whole family of scorpions, a situation that shocked her.
The woman reportedly found 18 scorpions in the suitcase, apparently a mother and her babies.
He called Tierhilfe Gusental, an animal rescue service, which said in a statement: “This Later a lady from Natternbach contacted us, because the stowaways have nested in the luggage of her trip to Croatia”.
“More precisely, a scorpion with babies. The animals were secured and handed over to us. They are currently in the Linz animal shelter until they start their return journey,” he added.
The Austrian media reported that this is the third case of scorpions from Croatia ending up in Upper Austria.
They said that a A woman from Linz had discovered a scorpion in her apartment on Thursday 30 in June, also after a vacation in Croatia. Interestingly, she had already been home for three weeks when she made the grisly find.
Another case, in September last year, saw a scorpion from Croatia found in a house in Upper Austria before being taken to an animal shelter.
Scorpions are characterized by a segmented curved tail with a poisonous stinger at the back of the body and a pair of grasping pincers at the front. Although they live in many habitats, they are more common and diverse in deserts.
In Croatia, scorpions are found mainly on the Adriatic coast and are much rarer in the continental regions of the country.
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