I’ve never seen one of these on the menu at any restaurant, but I’d surely buy one if that should change.

At least one. Probably not two.

Probably.

It’s a striped bark scorpion, very common around here. Not a particularly large example, but with a painful sting nonetheless.

A quick stop at the local hardware store brings us this.

A product specially formulated to kill scorpions. Never saw anything like this when I was living amongst the green fields of Ohio, but necessary now that I’m down in the dusty landscape of west Texas.