Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

All the way back in episode nine of the podcast, we learned a lot about spiders and spider webs.

This week, two and a half years after that episode, we are going to learn about a close relative of the spider.

Double mail bag.

Double mail bag!

Hello, curious kids.

Mason, age nine, would love to hear a podcast on scorpions.

And Mia, age six, would love to learn more about trees. We were hiking yesterday and she was so fascinated about how the rings tell you how old the tree

is. Thanks as always, Mason and Mia of Toronto, Ontario.

What a fantastic email.

Check out episode 32, curious about trees.

We learned all about trees and how the rings helped tell how old a tree is.

Hi, my name is James and I'm eight years old. My siblings and I love listening to your

podcast every day at lunch. I'm curious about scorpions. I hope you can feature them in a future

episode. My question is, how many people are stung by scorpions every year? Another awesome email.

We are getting curious about scorpions for our listeners from Orlando to Toronto and in between.

Before we get started learning more about scorpions, I should tell you that scorpions creep me out a bit.

Let me tell you a story. When I was 17 years old,

I spent a few months in Israel with classmates. While I was there, me and a bunch of my friends

from school hiked across Israel, from east to west, through the Negev Desert, which is a desert

in the southern half of Israel. We had two guides with us during

our hike. We were in the desert for six days straight, morning, day, and night. We slept in sleeping

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