Reply #10: Completely unknown except for in the deserts.

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I have lived in California (Orange and San Diego counties) for 38 years and the only time I have ever seen a scorpion in California was way out in the desert of Imperial County. I think they are completely unknown in the coastal counties. The one I saw in Imperial County was very small and tan in color. A friend of mine who lives in Palm Springs says there are "wind scorpions" there, but those are not the same thing as the "regular" scorpions, they are more like spiders. It is possible that a scorpion native to the deserts of Arizona and part of California could have "hitched a ride" on a vehicle and ended up in Los Angeles or Orange counties, but that would be a random occurrence and they are not indigenous to the coastal areas.