My first encounter with a Scorpion, a “near sting” experience, was in December 2008.   “Oh look, a dead Scorpion”, I said to my husband, since it was so flat looking.   As I stooped down for a closer look he warned “Don’t get any closer, he’s not dead!” The bite of this Salvadoran variety Scorpion is [...]

By now we’d grown accustomed to Scorpian sightings in rural Chalatenango, El Salvador. They live in “El Techo” (the roof) says my father-in-law.  Hiding between crevices in las Tejas, the terracotta roof tiles, Scorpions occasionally find their way into the house. The walls in our house stop several inches short of the roof to leave [...]

This is one of my all-time favorite insect moments in El Salvador.   My husband went into the shower without his towel, and asked me to bring it to him.  I went into the bedroom and pulled the towel off our plastic assemble-it-yourself closet, walking through the family room and patio, and into the bathroom with [...]