Do scorpion babies eat their mother?
In this regard, do scorpions kill their mother?
When the mother feels ready, she presses her body onto her offspring and allows them to consume her via sucking on her insides. As they consume her, they also release poison into her body, causing a quick death. The mother's body is kept for a few weeks as a nutritional reserve.
Similarly, you may ask, do baby spiders eat their mom?
Talk about long-suffering moms—some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive, a new study says. "When she is almost depleted, the offspring will crawl onto her and start eating her.” Spiderlings eat a female spider alive in a process called matriphagy, or mother-eating.
At Backwater Reptiles, once our scorplings are not living on their mother's back anymore, we feed them pinhead crickets and fruit flies. Both of these are appropriately-sized invertebrates that baby scorpions are quick to consume. You can place one or two pinhead crickets per scorpion into the enclosure each day.