Do Scorpions migrate from cold weather to warm?

Today’s question: Do scorpions migrate? No. Where did you get such an idea? Scorpions do not migrate in the sense that birds head south for the winter. In fact, for the most part a scorpion never travels more than a few hundred feet in its lifetime.

I suppose that you could say scorpions migrate in the sense that they follow the food. A new house built on raw desert land will end up as home to more scorpions than would have been found if the area was undisturbed.

That’s because we bring along all the stuff scorpions are looking for — lights to attract bugs, new places to hide and so forth. We also bring along water, but scorpions get most of what moisture they need from their prey.

Some people think scorpions travel in groups. This also is not so. They do find some dark, warm place to hole up for the winter. Bark scorpions — the ones you really need to worry about — hibernate in groups of 20 or 30, but most species hibernate alone.

During a baseball telecast, they often impose a strike zone on the screen to show exactly where the pitch was. I understand the width would always be the same but does the height change depending on the height of the batter? Obviously so. The MLB rule book defines the strike zone as "that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap.”