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Scorpions in Sheerness Dockyard wall

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stuartwaters:
Under threat now it seems....


https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/12/robinmckie.theobserver


Admittedly, an almost 20-year old article in the good old Grauniad..

stuartwaters:

--- Quote from: Sidw on September 21, 2021, 06:01:44 PM ---Didn't the Sheerness dockyard scopions come from the Cornwallis?

--- End quote ---


No, they came in with cargoes of stone from the Mediterranean, used in the reconstruction of the Dockyard in the early 19th Century.

Sidw:
Didn't the Sheerness dockyard scopions come from the Cornwallis?

pete.mason:
There is also a colony in East Anglia IIRC at a railway sidings that imported fruit. My mother, a Bluetowner, used to talk of catching them when  a child- we never believed her back then

John Walker:
I'm sure I saw on tv some time back that scorpions are also to be seen in walls around Dover but nowhere near the large population that exists in Sheerness,


http://www.jasonsteelwildlifephotography.yolasite.com/uk-scorpions.php

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