If you’re looking into scorpion control, you may have heard that you must control their food sources. The scorpions being nocturnal, are best fed at night. The reason that we end up going out to Gilbert homes with chickens is because chickens are not nocturnal, and scorpions are. Cockroaches; Moths; Water has to provided by soaking cotton ball in water, or placed in a shallow dish in the scorpion tank. You may have even been told that the only way to get rid of scorpions is to get rid of the bugs they eat. You mentioned cockroaches & other bugs in your subject. Chickens will eat scorpions. Baby scorpions that molt for the first time, and are separated from the mother, can be fed small baby crickets and other small feeders. Please, please, please do not use Dr. Google. So what do scorpions eat? Cockroaches also called by many "waterbugs", will eat each other. Most scorpions will do most of their hunting and feeding at night, when chickens are usually sleeping. All 2,000 scorpion species are hardy bugs; researchers have even frozen scorpions overnight only to watch them thaw and walk away unscathed the next morning. I HATE cockroaches and you will more than likely see one of those gross bugs before you see a scorpion. If you have a true concern than call the poison hotline and ask them what should IF someone gets stung. It is important to note that scorpions eat live food. Scorpions are carnivorous arachnids closely related to spiders and ticks. This is not true! If they find a scorpion in your yard or around your home, they will eat it. When I had pet Tokay lizards, I would feed them cockroaches.
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