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Lake Hawthorne ©Rayford Ratcliff
Introduction Information about the butterfly
O.
poweshiek, Legacy butterfly Legacy
of Chief Poweshiek
H.W. Parker's writings Von Blixum's Heroic Experiment
Iowa's
biological diversity
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Scorpions Scorpions in Iowa? No--scorpions are not known from Iowa. However, there is one scorpion, Centruroides vittatus, the striped bark scorpion, which has a range that could include Iowa.
At one time there was a web site that gave descriptions and range maps for scorpions of the United States. The range of this species goes fairly far north in Missouri, on both the eastern and western sides of the state, so its native range is very close to Iowa. Another range map can be found at the following source: Shelley, R.M. and W.D. Sissom. 1985. Distributions of the scorpions Centruroides vittatus (Say) and Centruroides hentzi (Banks) in the United States and Mexico (Scorpiones, Buthidae). JOA 23:100-110. It might be fun to organize some field trips with UV lights (scorpions fluoresce under UV light) to rocky areas in the south east or south west corners of Iowa to see if we can add this to the species list. |
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