If you live here, you are five times more likely to meet a scorpion

This area of the United States sees more than 10,000 human meetings with scorpions each year.

If the thought of arriving on abed bug makes you panic or you have a paralyzingfear of spidersEveryone has a particular pest that are particularly worried about the meeting. In many cases, even for those without a particular phobia of scorpions, on one of these potentially venomous arachnids with eight legs can be a heartbreaking thought. And unfortunately for people living in a given area of the country, these meetings are significantly more common than you imagine.

To determine the specific distribution of Scorpions in the United States, researchers at the University of Arizona College of the Department of Infant Health, Department of Medicine Medicine-Phoenix and Department of Emergency Medicine in the form of a table The number of Scorpion Exhibitions Reported to the National Poison Data System between 2010 and 2015, Singling Out States who had received more than 100 calls each year during this period.

Among the states that have had more than 100 Scorpion meetings each year, we had five times more meetings than others: Arizona. In fact, barely a five-year period, the state had a 57,16888 tanglingScorpion meetings reported, with the areas of Gilbert, Phoenix / Anthem, Catalina Foothills, Phoenix and Scottsdale indicating the largest number of meetings. Moreover, the state (among a handful of others in the southwest) houses theArizona Bark Scorpion, the only scorpion from the United States with a pitch known to befatal to humans.

However, Arizona is not the only state in the United States where you could meet with a scorpion. The researchers in the study identified eight other states with a high number of annual scorpion meetings, too read if your area did the list.