Black Scorpions: Now worth more than Diamond, now caught and sold in Pakistan

(Heterometrus longimanus, of the family Scorpionidae)

                                          Background

Thata/Karachi: The Hetrometrus (Black scorpions) now considered being on the most dangerous anthropods creature in the country, There was a dark time period in the past when people saw this creature in their surroundings, they usually killed them on the spot. But I guess time never stay same for everyone, now if people of sindh find black scorpion weight 40-70 grams above in their fields or streets, abandoned places now they prefer to caught them alive.

According to our source the sindh black market trade of black and yellow scorpions is at peak. Catching a scorpion is not an easy task however people of sindh are now not afraid of catching these beautiful creatures. When the sun set in sindh the hunters come out with their ultra violet torches, because scorpions shine green or blue in the Ultra violet light and they can be easily identified in bushes of under the rocks or stones. People in the costal-belt of sindh still do it to get good money or some time earn lottery money, because weighing 60 grams can fetch at least $50,000.

PRICING

If your scorpion is 50-60 grams then it can fetch eye raising figures within a seconds because of their huge demand globally, and if some how you got scorpion weighing 100grams, is literally worth more than its weight in gold, diamonds.

                                                                 Hunters

People who hunt scorpions they leave their house after sun set in search of black sand, in the search of scorpions it can take 6-8 hours in the search, according to the one hunter ‘’M’’ he said hunting is fun going out in desert of forests because in return we earn good amount of money. And he also confirmed that it not a one man show, it’s a team work they used to go on hunt in the shape of teams.

Their main source of finding a scorpions is ultra violet torch light which helps to find this beautiful creature, they shine blue or green in the light of UV, below you can see in the picture scorpion is shinning bright in the darkness, because of ultra violet light.

Now in sindh when father go out for hunt, children pray to God please provide big black scorpion to my father, but now question which raise over here, if people keep on hunting this creature is it good ? are they destroying this creature, because if they on doing this trafficking that day is not so far when it will be extinct from motherland.

According to our resources most of the politicians also invested heavy amount of money in this business, farmers are also in this business, and the buyers of Swedish, America, Australian and