Colony of Scorpions Eating Winged Termites

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?

Another one

One more image.

Great documentation. Very interesting behaviour. This species is quite common, but I've no idea about its ID. How big were they?
TFS

Great Documentation , Bibhav. Thanks a lot for sharing this!

Nice documentation.

This is very intresting.TFS

Bibhav Behera, Very good work including photography. TFS.

I just got the IDs confirmed for this scorpion species. It is the Heterometrus tristis. This species is a common species in Odisha and lives in degraded termite mounds and also in tree holes. They live in colonies comprising several generations, sometimes more than 150 individuals.

Nice documentation Bibhav. Quite interesting to see this behaviour. I guess they're saving up for a rainy day or maybe they plan to nest. Would be interesting to know what they do after stocking!!