Does every 5 years a scorpion mate?

Answer 1

Well actually up until 1974 it was commonly believed that scorpions exluding the Arizona black shield( a kind known only in the plains of Arizona) did mate ever four to five years. In March of 1974 a insect biologist Dr. hendrick grenshaw who had been in an exstencive study on the behaviour and patterns of scorpions observed that scorpions did not contrary to former knowledge actually mated each fall. This discovery was monumental in the fact that he discovered that the large reason for the belief that the scorpions mated only once every five years was because they only mate for an average 4-5 sec. making it hard to catch a pair of mates in the mating process. Hope this was helpful!