Bibhav Behera
21-09-2010, 09:10 AM
I had witnessed this behaviour on June 20th around 6 AM in the morning at Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Orissa at a place called Chaurasimal.
This was just after the first rains and there were winged termites coming from within the ground from various places.
But what struck us was that in a small area of around 6'x6' there were close to 25 scorpions catching the winged termites with around 5-6 caught by each. Some even had upto 8-9 in both claws (included). They would then go down holes in the soil and stock them. They would then come back for more.
I had never seen so many scorpions in one place leave aside catching prey like this in such a large scale. We saw the phenomenon for close to an hour or so.
Sharing a few images to show how it looked. Unfortunately I had left my wide angle lens back at the camp. Lesson learnt.
All images shot with 1000D + 300 f/4 @ f/4, ISO 400
PS: Can someone help identify the exact species of the scorpions seen here?
This was just after the first rains and there were winged termites coming from within the ground from various places.
But what struck us was that in a small area of around 6'x6' there were close to 25 scorpions catching the winged termites with around 5-6 caught by each. Some even had upto 8-9 in both claws (included). They would then go down holes in the soil and stock them. They would then come back for more.
I had never seen so many scorpions in one place leave aside catching prey like this in such a large scale. We saw the phenomenon for close to an hour or so.
Sharing a few images to show how it looked. Unfortunately I had left my wide angle lens back at the camp. Lesson learnt.
All images shot with 1000D + 300 f/4 @ f/4, ISO 400
PS: Can someone help identify the exact species of the scorpions seen here?