Alas, one of the few spoilers of this desert paradise are the scorpions.  There are virtually no bugs out here but these pointy fiends surely compensate. I was originally quite terrified of these demons so I have begun to keep them as 'pets' in an aquarium as a sort of 'scorpion therapy'.  It works!  Here are some excellent photos taken of my poison-tipped neighbors:

By the way, did I mention that they glow bright neon yellow under a black light?  Very bizarre - you have to see it to believe it.

Here one of our intrepid scorps prepares to catch his largest prey yet - a giant grasshopper...

...if you can believe it he actually held on while the grasshopper flew around the cage for a minute before succumbing to the poison.

Life in the scorpion shack is quite cushy; free food, a water tub and a cool climbing wall...