Scorpions easily eat rats

Scorpions are completely carnivorous, feeding on invertebrates such as spiders, crickets, small centipedes, larvae and nymphs of various insects and even small geckos. It finds the location of its prey by means of auditory or tarsal hairs and slit sensilla on its extremities. When a scorpion is feeding, it grabs the prey with its limbs, raises its back abdomen, bends to the front of its body, and stings with a poisonous needle. Composed of six segments, it is a trapezoid, and the back is covered with head armor, which is covered with granular projections. The muscles outside the poison gland contract, and the poison flows out from the opening of the poison needle.

Most scorpions are poisonous enough to kill insects but not fatal to humans, causing only a searing pain. The scorpion uses its pincers to slowly tear open its food, sucking in the body fluids of the prey, then exhaling digestive juices, which are digested outside the body and then inhaled. Eating is slow.