Channel 8 Las Vegas Video
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LAS VEGAS – Scorpions have invaded the Eagle Trace Apartments near East Craig Road and Las Vegas Boulevard, North. These creepy, crawly, eight-legged creatures just won’t go away. If the grasping claws do not strike fear in residents, the poisonous stingers do.
Angel Palmer, who just gave birth to a baby boy, says she captured 15 to 20 scorpions crawling around her apartment. She says she spotted at least another 30 in the apartment she used to live in upstairs.
“They get bigger and bigger. We have the biggest one that we caught the other day,” she said. “Pretty bad, because it can really hurt anybody.”
Apartment management says it’s doing the best it can to control the situation, spending $25,000 last year to try and rid the complex of scorpions.
“We have a very aggressive program,” said Kim Murray from Eagle Trace Apartments. “We put granulates outside. We’ve sealed the exterior parts of the building. We just started recently trimming back trees.”
The pesky problem stretches beyond the Eagle Trace Apartments. Wayne Bryant with Bulwark Pest Control specializes in scorpions. He says scorpion calls are up 30% from last year.
“The problem is just that they feel like it’s spring. So, they’re out moving around… Structures aren’t made to keep insects out of the home,” he said. “The reason they’re active is because it’s warmer than usual. If it was in the 50′s and 60′s right now, we wouldn’t be seeing this until March, April, May.”
That provides little comfort to people who want to rid their homes of the scorpions. “I don’t like them. I know that they’re poisonous, and they can kill you,” Palmer said.
According to Bulwark Pest Control, if you see a scorpion, throw a glass over it, slide a manila folder underneath and flush it.