V. spinigerus stillborns

I've been waiting on one of my female Vaejovis spinigerus to birth since spring. This past Sunday (I write this on Friday, and the following pictures were taken on Thursday evening) I saw her in the "birth basket" stance, so I assumed she was going to give birth shortly. Then, nothing happened. Nothing happened for the next four days, either. Then on Thursday evening, I checked on her and saw she had a large white glob of something in one of her pinchers (she dropped it when I got the camera).


Yep, that's a cluster of stillborn scorpion embryos.


I have no idea how this happened or what caused it, but I have one thing to say about it:


I may email Kari McWest and see if he has anything to say on the matter.