Oh god KILL THEM ALL WITH FIRE. Oh my God I will never set foot into the jungles of south america. NEVER.
Here is arizona we got these guys:

We find like 1-3 a week in our house.
Some Scary facts:
The average lifespan in the wild for the Scorpion is 2 to 10 years. Some have lived as long as 25 years in captivity.
The oldest artifacts of Scorpions date back 430 million years.
Some species of Scorpions can live for up to a year without any food or water.
Scorpions can survive a nuclear blast and suffer no adverse effects. They can also survive famine, freezing, and floods.