Scorpions are predatory arthropods that belong to the class Arachnida, the arachnids and are familiar to other arachnids like spiders, harvestmen, ticks and mites. The body of a scorpion is divided into three parts, the prosoma or cephalothorax (head), the mesoma (abdomen) and the metasoma (tail). The curvy upward pointed tail is actually five segments of