Ouch - Scorpion Sting

[On The Fly 6]

I'm originally from SE Oklahoma and there are scorpions everywhere! Anytime a house was built it would have to be sprayed because the scorpions would just invade. I have only seen one or two here in NWA. Spider population seems to be pretty high though. Particularly Fiddlebacks.

[Al Agnew]

I'm pretty sure that most armadillos are born dead on the road...but I have seen a few moving ones. The most amusing encounter happened a few years ago at Big Spring on the Current River. I'd driven into the area around the spring, and as I was driving by an open field, I saw several cars parked along the side of the road. I looked out into the field and there was this whole group of people, huddled like a football team, but the huddle was slowly moving. I stopped to watch what the heck was going on, and finally an armadillo emerged from the huddle, with the people continuing to follow it as it ambled across the field.

I shot one in the backyard. It didn't die immediately, and those things can DIG. In about ten seconds, wounded and all, it dug itself into the dirt until only its tail was showing, before I could run down and give it another .22 round.

The eerie thing about the critters is that a significant percentage of them carry leprosy.