If you live in the emperor scorpion’s range, you’ll likely find communities of them within your own home. Emperor scorpions in the pet trade are typically imported from Ghana and Togo.

Georgi Davisson-MacNeil shines a black light on an African emperor scorpion. She and her husband, Ken, run a new pet shop strictly for outside-the-box thinkers.

The emperor scorpions are ranked among the largest globally with a history of roughly 300 million years. They live in tropical regions and have low venom making them ideal for the exotic pet business.

Between 2011 and 2015, WAP found, hundreds of thousands of these animals were exported every year. More than half the ball pythons, emperor scorpions, and savanna monitor lizards were destined for ...

Around two-thirds of individuals were found to be wild-caught, including over 77% of emperor scorpions, accounting for 700,000 animals, being imported into the USA. As three quarters of arachnids are ...