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GUANAJUATO, MEXICO - BLOGSWhat's a Blog? From ,Wikipedia the free encyclopedia GUANAJUATO, MEXICO - A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1] With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.
Monday, February 8, 2010 -- Guanajuato, Mexico -- ALACRANAlacran is the Spanish word for scorpion. And last night, we saw our first alacarn--scorpion--in our new house.Scorpions are in abundance in Mexico. If you stay here for any time at all you will likely see one of these devilish bugs crawling across your ceiling, hiding in your closet, embedded in your shoes or clothes, or sitting on the couch with you while you watch television. They sit patiently seeming like they are not doing what they are suppose to do like hunt bugs. I am sure they are plotting my demise. They sit as though ready to spring on me to do me in. But, as they sit there on some surface in your house and are relatively easy to kill. This scorpion was on the ceiling of our bedroom no doubt contemplating just how to land on our bed so it could lie in await for us. I had already taken off my glasses getting ready to crawl underneath the covers when my wife spotted it. This one was NOT the usual brown ones that are so common in the state of Guanajuato. Whenever we've seen one and mentioned it to our Mexican neighbors, they always ask what color it was. There is a reason why they do this. The brown ones are not particularly deadly. They can hurt you, I know from personal experience, but you usually just get a nasty sting. The reason for Mexicans wanting to know the color of the alacrans is that there is a very deadly species usually found in Durango, Mexico that has made its way from the northern states into central Mexico. Durango state is the second lowest population density in Mexico but making up for that in having one of the most deadliest scorpions in the world. Durango is famous for their scorpions and is often called La tierra de los Alacranes” (the scorpions land). The Durango scorpion is:
The Leon, Guanajuato leather industry has been largely responsible for the importing of this creature in leather goods from Durango to be sold in the leather district. The scorpions ride along in the the products and now are responsible for deaths in the state of Guanajuato. Now, they are here in the city of Guanajuato. You can't miss these as being the deadly species. They are strikingly different from the run-of-the-mill thick bodied brown ones more common here and can possibly kill you. The sting can cause severe local and systemic symptoms. The sting of this species is one of the few that can actually cause death even in healthy, adult humans. --SourceI caught the deadly bug and flushed its scorpion hide down the toilet.
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