A Deadly Sting A scorpion crawls out of its burrow Another scorpion passes by It comes closer They notice each other They raise their tails They attack It’s a fight The big one flips the small one onto its back Then the big one whips its tail It stings The sting is deadly The small one dies The big one eats it up Yum 4
5 Two scorpions fight The loser will get stung
Scorpions don’t like company They use their killer sting to prove it They sting one another They sting predators They sting people too A quick flick of the tail stings an enemy The stinger at the end of the tail sends venom a kind of poison into the enemy 7 7 The stinger on the scorpion’s tail is called the telson
