Call me Hunter of All Things Creepy-Crawly..and a chicken
The local Bug & Weed Mart sold me a can of...something. All I cared was that it was relatively inexpensive ($28) and could kill a scopion on contact. I sprayed part of the block wall where I see a big fat scorp hanging out every night. Then I went to the front of the house and sprayed the sidewalk crevices. I found one large gap in particular and
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First, your scorpions may have been living off the (probably American) roaches and local crickets in your yard. The ideal situation is to locate where the roaches are living (and major moisture conditions conducive to roaches and crickets) and eliminate them.
Why?
Because most poisons only work on scorpions when they are directly sprayed because scorpions neither clean themselves (injesting the toxin) nor usually eat already-dead prey (ingesting toxins).
Second, the type of scorpion makes a major difference into what to do next...
If your scorpions are actually living in your fence, such as in the cracks of or the small gaps in, you probably have Bark Scorpions and the simplest way to reduce their population is to eliminate the harborage where they live. Fill in cracks with caulking, eliminate piles of wood, use other means to keep them out of narrow grooves they love to inhabit.
If your scorpions are the Desert Hairy Scorpion (fat, burly tail and body), you're looking for more holes in the ground for their homes and most of the time they are not going to bother humans.
Third, most of this advice uses very little chemical (I would use some granules or roach bait in roach holes before sealing them, but why is a different story) and reduces threat to lizards (also probably preying on your pests), animals in the areas, and yourself.
Here's an informative link:
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/az1223/
(Guess what I did for 7 years?)
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