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Scorpions are not vertebrates. They do not have a backbone and are classified as invertebrates.

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Scorpions are arthropods and invertibrates. They're related to Spiders.

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What does a scorpion eat and what eats a scorpion?

Scorpions are opportunistic and will eat a variety of insects, spiders, centipedes, lizards and even mice. They will also eat other scorpions. Scorpions are preyed upon by other scorpions, tarantulas, lizards, birds, bats, shrews and mice.


What are the enemies of a scorpion?

Possibly large spiders, and vertebrates including birds, snakes and large frogs (like Bullfrogs), as well as other scorpions.


What are enemies of a scorpion?

Possibly large Spiders, and vertebrates including birds, snakes and large frogs (like Bullfrogs), as well as other scorpions.


Which animals are the spiders?

Animals are divided into two groups, vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates are animals with a backbone and invertebrates are animals without a backbone. In the invertebrates group there are mollusks, Insects, crustaceans and arachnids. Spiders are part of the arachnid group along with scorpions.


What group of vertebrates do a scorpion belong to?

They don't. Hence the hard crunchy shell on the outside with the soft center - like M&Ms.


What kind of birds do scorpions eat?

None really, scorpions on the whole tend to prey upon invertebrates and small vertebrates such as rodents, frogs or lizards . While there may be the rare case, it seems unlikely that any scorpion would have birds as their main prey as birds are mainly in the air and the scorpions are on the ground. If anything its the scorpions which should be watching out for the birds. Maybe your thinking of the Goliath bird eating tarantula (Which mainly eats invertebrates, not birds)?


Where do meerkats get their nutrients from?

Meerkats eat insects and insect larvae, particularly beetles, as well on spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, and small vertebrates such as lizards, snakes, rodents, and birds, and eggs and roots.


Is a coyote a vertebrae?

Yes a Coyote is a mammal and all mammals are vertebrates.


What is the collective noun for scorpions?

The collective nouns are a bed of scorpions, a colony of scorpions, or a nest of scorpions.


Do pocket mice eat scorpions?

Scorpions make good lizard food. There are many predators to scorpions, birds, cats, mice, rats, even humans in certain locations eat scorpions. So lizards eat scorpions, spiders eat scorpions, scorpions eat scorpions and people eat scorpions. I'm sure pocket mice eat scorpions!


Are scorpions human?

No. Scorpions are arachnids.


Are scorpions herbivores?

No, scorpions are carnivores.