WhipScorpions look like their cousins the Scorpions, except that they have a long slender tail, it is this 'caudal appendage' which gives the group its name.
WhipScorpions are much larger than the similar looking Palpigradi, ranging in size from 25 to 70mm in length, Unlike the more common arachnids WhipScorpions have no poison glands and their chelicerae are not chelate (i.e.
WhipScorpions are purely nocturnal hunters feeding mostly on insects such as cockroaches and grasshoppers, though they also eat worms and slugs.
A uropygid, commonly known as a "whipscorpion", "vinegarone", or "vinegaroon", is an invertebrate animal belonging to the order Uropygi in the class Arachnida, in the subphylum Chelicerata of the phylum Arthropoda.
Whipscorpions have no poison glands, but they do have glands near the rear of their abdomen that can spray a combination of formic and acetic acid when they are bothered.
Whipscorpions are carnivorous, nocturnal hunters feeding mostly on other insects but sometimes on worms and slugs.
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